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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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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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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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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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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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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