“Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment.”
“What is it?”
“Impossibility.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“My lord,” said D’Artagnan, “Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“[I]f you happen to have any money, lock it up quickly; if you happen to have any jewels, hide them directly; if you happen to have any debtors, make them pay you, or any creditors, don’t pay them.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Flying through an army, sire,” said Athos, “in all countries in the world is called charging.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“[L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“It is a bad year for kings,” said Gondy, shaking his head; “look at England, madame.”
“Yes; but fortunately we have no Oliver Cromwell in France,” replied the Queen.
“Who knows?” said Gondy; “such men are like thunderbolts—one recognized them only when they have struck.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“My friend, she is a woman." "No, no, you are deceived--she is a queen.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Sleep is a very capricious goddess, and it is precisely when she is invoked that she delays coming.
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― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“La sua giovinezza gli riapparve portando tutti i ricordi soavi, che sono profumi piuttosto che pensieri. Da quel passato al presente c’era un abisso. Ma la fantasia ha il volto dell’angelo e del baleno; essa varca i mari nei quali abbiamo corso il rischio di naufragare, le tenebre dove si sono perdute le nostre illusioni, gli abissi che hanno inghiottito la nostra felicità”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“Alas, madame!" exclaimed Athos, "to-day love is like war--the breastplate is becoming useless.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“I would follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“El carruaje partió inmediatamente, y aprovechando Artagnan la oscuridad que reinaba en la bóveda bajo la cual pasaba, se arrojó en brazos del prisionero exclamando:
- ¡Rochefort! ¿Sois vos? ¡No me equivoco...!”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“We are judges of wounds, we old soldiers,”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
“A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas
Born place: in Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, French Republic
Born date July 24, 1802
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“Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.”
― Lorii Myers, quote from Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
“You can't just take her," Jeremy said, his voice growing rough with anger. "She belongs here. She's my wife."
Henry's eyes narrowed. "Not if I kill you, she isn't. Then she's your widow.”
― Tessa Dare, quote from Goddess of the Hunt
“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, an state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are. To what you can understand, live, be, just by being with that presents itself to you in the form of the feelings you have...”
― Geneen Roth, quote from Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“This law is even more significant when we put it in the context of other laws in the Mosaic covenant. In other cases in the Mosaic law where someone accidentally caused the death of another person, there was no requirement to give “life for life,” no capital punishment. Rather, the person who accidentally caused someone else’s death was required to flee to one of the “cities of refuge” until the death of the high priest (see Num. 35:9–15, 22–29). This was a kind of “house arrest,” although the person had to stay within a city rather than within a house for a limited period of time. It was a far lesser punishment than “life for life.” This means that God established for Israel a law code that placed a higher value on protecting the life of a pregnant woman and her preborn child than the life of anyone else in Israelite society. Far from treating the death of a preborn child as less significant than the death of others in society, this law treats the death of a preborn child or its mother as more significant and worthy of more severe punishment. And the law does not place any restriction on the number of months the woman was pregnant. Presumably it would apply from a very early stage in pregnancy, whenever it could be known that a miscarriage had occurred and her child or children had died as a result. Moreover, this law applies to a case of accidental killing of a preborn child. But if accidental killing of a preborn child is so serious in God’s eyes, then surely intentional killing of a preborn child must be an even worse crime. The conclusion from all of these verses is that the Bible teaches that we should think of the preborn child as a person from the moment of conception, and we should give to the preborn child legal protection at least equal to that of others in the society. Additional note: It is likely that many people reading this evidence from the Bible, perhaps for the first time, will already have had an abortion. Others reading this will have encouraged someone else to have an abortion. I cannot minimize or deny the moral wrong involved in this action, but I can point to the repeated offer of the Bible that God will give forgiveness of sins to those who repent of their sin and trust in Jesus Christ for forgiveness: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Although such sin, like all other sin, deserves God’s wrath, Jesus Christ took that wrath on himself as a substitute for all who would believe in him: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24). b. Scientific”
― Wayne A. Grudem, quote from Politics - According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture
“A big seizure just kind of grabs the inside of your skull and squeezes. It feels as if it's twisting and turning your brain all up and down and inside out. Have you ever heard a washing machine suddenly flip into that bang-bang-bang sound when it gets out of balance, or a chain saw when the chain breaks and gets caught up in the gears, or an animal like a cat, screeching in pain? Those are what seizures felt like when I was little.”
― Terry Trueman, quote from Stuck in Neutral
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