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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
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Foreign Minister
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Radicalism
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
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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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Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
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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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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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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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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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