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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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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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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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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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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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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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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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