Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 6

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• Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

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  Death, Fall, Light

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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• Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Passion, Tired, Political

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• And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

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  Lonely, Stars, Sleep

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.18

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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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• Man is God by his faculty for thought.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Divinity, Faculty

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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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