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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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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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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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