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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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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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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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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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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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