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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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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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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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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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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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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