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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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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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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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