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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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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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 of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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