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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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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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...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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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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