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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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Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.
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It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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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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Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
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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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The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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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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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans we have one heart or we don't have any.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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All nature is the temple earth the altar.
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Esteem incites friendship, but not love the former is the twin brother of Reverence the latter is the child of Equality.
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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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Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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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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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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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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