Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.Alphonse de Lamartine
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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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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