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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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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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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
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Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
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Good manners require space and time.
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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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Ink is the transcript of thought.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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