Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Eye, Mean, Army

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

• We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...”, p.13

• An artist should have more than two eyes.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Art, Eye, Should Have

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sweet, Eye, Night

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