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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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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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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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