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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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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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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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