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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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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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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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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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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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