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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Kindness is virtue itself.
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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!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 love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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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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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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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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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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