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• If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

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  Brother, Father, Community

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• The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

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  Spiritual, Greatness, Men

  "Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

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• I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

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  Country, Truth, Thinking

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• Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

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  Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

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  Too Much, Calm, Forget

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• The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

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  Men, Machines, Photographer

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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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

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  Mother, Sweet, Loss

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• God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

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  World

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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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  Eternity, Certain, Terrible

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1848). “Histoire Des Girondins”, p.183

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• Ink is the transcript of thought.

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  Ink

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• Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

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  Men, Crucible, Sorrow

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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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  Animal, Purpose, Flesh

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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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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  Night, Dawn

  "The Lake". Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

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  Giving, Chance, Should

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• An artist should have more than two eyes.

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  Art, Eye, Should Have

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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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  Mirrors, History, Judging

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• Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

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  Women, Affection, Misers

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• Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

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  Ends, Treason, Betray

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• At twenty every one is republican.

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  Twenties, Republic, Republican

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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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  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

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  Running, Book, Writing

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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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  Dream, Dark, Past

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.11

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• Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.

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  Ignorance, Republic, Bitter

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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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  Happiness, Joy, Storm

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• After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

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  Men, Blood, Giving

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1851). “The stone-mason of Saint Point: a village tale. Translated from the French”, p.45

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