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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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