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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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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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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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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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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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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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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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