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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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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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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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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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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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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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