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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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