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Kindness is virtue itself.
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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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