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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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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Good manners require space and time.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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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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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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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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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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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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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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