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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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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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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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Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
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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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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
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The people only understand what they can feel the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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