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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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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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Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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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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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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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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Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions It is a friend's sad goodbye it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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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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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
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Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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