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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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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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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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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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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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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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