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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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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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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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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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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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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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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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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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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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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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