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Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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