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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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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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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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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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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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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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