Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 6

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• Man is God by his faculty for thought.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Divinity, Faculty

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• Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Hero, Race, Firefighter

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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.

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  Country, Men, Patriotism

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

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  Political, France, Revolution

  1847 Histoire des Girondins.

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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.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Lonely, Stars, Sleep

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

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