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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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