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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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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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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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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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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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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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