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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

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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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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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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