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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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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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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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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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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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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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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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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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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
Alphonse de Lamartine
