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Good manners require space and time.

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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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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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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He, who can create, abhors destruction.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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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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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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 photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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