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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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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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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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse de Lamartine
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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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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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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
Alphonse de Lamartine
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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