Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• Kindness is virtue itself.

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  Kindness, Virtue

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• All our tastes are but reminiscences.

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  Taste

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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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• Good manners require space and time.

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  Space, Good Man, Manners

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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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• Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

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  Brother, Children, Twins

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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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• Modesty and dew love the shade.

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  Retirement, Dew, Shade

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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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• 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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• 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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• Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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  Radicalism, Logic, Desperation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

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  War, Civil War, Tombs

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• All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

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  Nature, Earth, Temples

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• True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

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  Greatness, Sovereign, Virtue

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1891). “Lamartine's Works ...”

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