Quotes About Lamartine

#1. Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first.

Frederic Bastiat

#2. Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

Paul Bourget

#3. My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Franz Liszt

#4. God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#5. Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#6. 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!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#7. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#8. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#9. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#10. When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#11. He, who can create, abhors destruction.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#12. The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#13. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#14. Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#15. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#16. Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#17. 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)

Alphonse De Lamartine

#18. There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#19. Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!
yes, the whole man,
as the crucible gold.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#20. Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#21. All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#22. Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#23. Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace ...

Alphonse De Lamartine

#24. Good manners require space and time.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#25. If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

#27. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#28. Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

#30. Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#31. After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

#33. Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Alphonse De Lamartine

#35. We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#36. Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#37. Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#38. History teaches everything, even the future.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#39. An artist should have more than two eyes.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#40. 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?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#41. The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#42. Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#43. 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?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#44. The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Alphonse De Lamartine

#45. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#46. Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#47. Kindness is virtue itself.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#48. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#49. Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#50. The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#51. Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#52. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#53. All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#54. I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#55. Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#56. Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#57. Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#58. Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#59. 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?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#60. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#61. Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#62. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#63. Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#64. Utopias are often just premature truths.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#65. Modesty and dew love the shade.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#66. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#67. Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#68. I don't believe it is good to constantly deify war as if peace, which is the happiness and glory of the world, could be the shame of nations.

Lamartine

#69. 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!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#70. There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#71. Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#72. Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,
compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#73. Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#74. We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#75. Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#76. Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#77. Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#78. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#79. The most effective coquetry is innocence.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#80. Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#81. Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#82. Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#83. Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#84. 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.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#85. Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated

Alphonse De Lamartine

#86. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#87. Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#88. Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#89. Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#90. Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#91. What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Alphonse De Lamartine

#92. It is for truth that God created genius.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#93. A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#94. Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#95. At twenty every one is republican.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#96. Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#97. Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#98. God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

Alphonse De Lamartine

#99. Ink is the transcript of thought.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#100. Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!

Alphonse De Lamartine