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All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!
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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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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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An artist should have more than two eyes.
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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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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
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Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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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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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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The most effective coquetry is innocence.
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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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