Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes - Page 6

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• I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, "So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

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  Believe, People, Joy

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.9

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• But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

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  Sleep, Bird, Today

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• Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

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  Fighting, Men, Battle

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

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  History, Biographies, Scales

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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.

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  Passion, Tired, Political

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