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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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  Real, Silence, Applause

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

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  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

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• Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Sentiments

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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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• 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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• The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them.

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  People, Soul, Atheism

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.57

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• Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

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  Brother, Father, Men

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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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  Ambition, Dupes, Victim

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• The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

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  Men, Weakness, Attractiveness

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• Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

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  Women, Compassion, Two

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• Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

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  Mistress, Unanimity

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• My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

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  Dog, Differences, Thee

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• The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

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  Fall, Angel, Heart

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• If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

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  Istanbul, Wish, Looks

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• Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
  He speeds; we pass away!

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  Time, Men, Heaven

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “The Lake”

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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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  Men, Justice, Lawyer

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• But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

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  Sleep, Bird, Today

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

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  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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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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  Fighting, Men, Battle

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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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  God, Believe, Sky

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.16

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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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  Death, Fall, Light

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?

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  Heart, Grieving, Eden

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “Memory and Hope”

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• Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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  Passion, Tire

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• History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

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  History, Biographies, Scales

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