Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to m... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
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"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."
"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."