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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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The photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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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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