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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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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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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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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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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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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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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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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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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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