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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
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Poet
Politician
Prosaist
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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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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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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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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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 one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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