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God Orders A Man To Do All He Can To Save His Life.

You Who Weep For Pleasures Fled, While Dragging On A Life Of Care, All Your Woes Will Melt In Air, If To God Your Tears Are Shed, You Who Weap!

I'm Sure You're Very Nice, But You'd Be Even Nicer If You Went Away.

Dantes Passed Through All The Stages Of Torture Natural To Prisoners In Suspense. He Was Sustained At First By That Pride Of Conscious Innocence Which Is The Sequence To Hope; Then He Began To Doubt His Own Innocence, Which Justified In Some Measure The Governor's Belief In His Mental Alienation; And Then, Relaxing His Sentiment Of Pride, He Addressed His Supplications, Not To God, But To Man. God Is Always The Last Resource. Unfortunates, Who Ought To Begin With God, Do Not Have Any Hope In Him Till They Have Exhausted All Other Means Of Deliverance.

In Every Country Where Independence Has Taken The Place Of Liberty, The First Desire Of A Manly Heart Is To Possess A Weapon Which At Once Renders Him Capable Of Defence Or Attack, And, By Rendering Its Owner Fearsome, Makes Him Feared.