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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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