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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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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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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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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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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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