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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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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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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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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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