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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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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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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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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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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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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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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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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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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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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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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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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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