Alexandre Dumas - Wisdom Quotes

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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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The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection

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All human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.

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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

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Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom... There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

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Never forget that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words—"Wait and hope."

Alexandre Dumas