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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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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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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
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