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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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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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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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