"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."

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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

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"Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."

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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

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

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"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."

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"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."

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"The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them."

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"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."

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"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on Love
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