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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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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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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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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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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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