Top 100 Alphonse De Lamartine Quotes
#3. 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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#4. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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#5. Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me
Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.
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#8. The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
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#9. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
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#11. 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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#13. It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)
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#14. 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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#17. Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace ...
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#20. 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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#21. Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.
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#22. France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
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#27. We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.
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#31. Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
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#32. Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
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#33. If the grandeur of the aim, the smallness of the means, the immensity of the result are the three measures of a man's genius, who would dare humanly compare a great man of modern history with Muhammad?
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#34. Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
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#37. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
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#38. The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
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#40. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
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#42. I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
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#44. Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
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#45. Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
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#46. 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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#47. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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#48. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
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#49. Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
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#52. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
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#54. The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
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#58. Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
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#60. There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
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#63. We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.
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#65. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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#66. Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
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#68. Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
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#69. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
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#73. Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
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#80. Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light
instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.
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#81. What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?
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#86. Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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#87. To kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
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#88. It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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#94. There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.
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#95. Silence - the applause of real and durable impressions - was broken by no one; each respected in the other the thoughts he felt to be the same as his own.
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#96. Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.
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#97. Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
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#100. It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.
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