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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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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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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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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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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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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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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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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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