Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

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• Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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  Love, Farewell, Missing

  "Meditations Poetiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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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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  Life, Change, Travel

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• To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

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  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

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

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• History teaches everything, even the future.

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  Art, Philosophy, Teaching

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

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• The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

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  Funny, Dog, People

  Letter to John Forster, 1850.

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

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  God, Judging, Court

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• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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  Heart, Animal, Men

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• Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

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  Men, Hours, Harbors

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

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  Travel, Istanbul, Cities

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• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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  Music, Art, Literature

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• Argument should be polite as well as logical.

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  Argument, Logical, Should

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• A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

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  Gentleness

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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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  Heart, Long, Rose

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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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  Nature, Men, Heaven

  "Méditations Poétiques". Book by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

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  Love, Heart, Dawn

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• Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

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  Poetry, Poet

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.341

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• Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

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  Angel, Poetry, Humanity

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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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  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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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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  Heart, Animal, Two

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• The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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  Coquetry, Innocence

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• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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  Animal, Differences, Brutality

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• There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

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  Love, Emo Love, Great Things

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• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

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  Mean, Greatness, Men

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

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• There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

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  Sweet, Eye, Night

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• Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

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  Inspiration, Solitary, Consecutive

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