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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

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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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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