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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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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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