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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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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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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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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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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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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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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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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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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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