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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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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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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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