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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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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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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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At twenty every one is republican.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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