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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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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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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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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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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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