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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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