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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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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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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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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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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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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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