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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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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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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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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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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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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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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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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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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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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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