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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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