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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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