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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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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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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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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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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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