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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Sentiment
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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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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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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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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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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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.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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