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Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
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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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
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If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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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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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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After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
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God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Good manners require space and time.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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