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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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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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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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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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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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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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