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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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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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I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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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What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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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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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds we pass away!
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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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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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The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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