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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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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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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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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 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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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