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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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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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