Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 2

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• Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

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  Inspiration, Solitary, Consecutive

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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

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  Retirement, Dew, Shade

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• Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

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  Life Is Too Short, Passion, Evil

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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? 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.

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  Eye, Mean, Army

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

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• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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  Wise, Men, Experience

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

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• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

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  Friendship, Sweet, Heart

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• The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

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  Heart, Men, Emotion

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• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

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  Hours, Passing, Enjoy

  "The Lake". Poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, 1820.

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• God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

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  Heart, Genius

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• True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

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  Love, Fruit, Lifetime

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

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• All our tastes are but reminiscences.

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  Taste

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• Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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  Radicalism, Logic, Desperation

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• Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

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  Two, Silence, Simplicity

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• Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

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  War, Civil War, Tombs

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• Utopias are often just premature truths.

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  Utopia, Premature

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• Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

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  Flames, Joy, Alive

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• Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

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  Freedom, Void, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.111

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• Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

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  Time, Ocean, Overflow

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

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• When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

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  Dog, Laughing, Reason

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• Good manners require space and time.

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  Space, Good Man, Manners

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• All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

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  Nature, Earth, Temples

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• Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

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  Heart, Lips, Eloquence

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• Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

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  Beautiful, One Day, Delight

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• Mystery hovers over all things here below.

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  Mystery, All Things

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• Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

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  Mind, Religion, Logic

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Travels in the East: Including a Journey in the Holy Land”, p.171

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