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Argument should be polite as well as logical.

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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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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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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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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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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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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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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