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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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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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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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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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