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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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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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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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Good manners require space and time.
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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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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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