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He, who can create, abhors destruction.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Foreign Minister
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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