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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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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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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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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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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