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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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 is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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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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