Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 6

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• History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  History, Biographies, Scales

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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Real, Silence, Applause

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

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• The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

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• Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Imagination, Sentiments

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• Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Country, Men, Patriotism

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• France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Political, France, Revolution

  1847 Histoire des Girondins.

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