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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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