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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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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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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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