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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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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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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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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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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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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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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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