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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Poet
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Good manners require space and time.
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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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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