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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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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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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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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Good manners require space and time.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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