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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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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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