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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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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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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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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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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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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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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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