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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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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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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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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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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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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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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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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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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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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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...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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