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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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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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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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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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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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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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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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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
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