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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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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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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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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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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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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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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