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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?
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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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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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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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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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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