You who are in power have only the means that money produces - we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
("The Count of Monte Cristo")
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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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The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of 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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