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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 de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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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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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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