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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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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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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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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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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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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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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