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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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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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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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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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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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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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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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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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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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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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