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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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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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Good manners require space and time.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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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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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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