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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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