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At twenty every one is republican.

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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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