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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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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable they are of instinct and not of reason.
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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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Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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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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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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