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God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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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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The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
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Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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