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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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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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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
