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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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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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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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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