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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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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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