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Modesty and dew love the shade.

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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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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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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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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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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