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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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All our tastes are but reminiscences.
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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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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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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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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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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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