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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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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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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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