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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

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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History teaches everything, even the future.
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At twenty every one is republican.
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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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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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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.
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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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