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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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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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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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