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Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Modesty and dew love the shade.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
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