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Alphonse De Lamartine Inspirational Quotes (125)

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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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Utopias are often just premature truths.
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Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
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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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Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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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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If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
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Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
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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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Good manners require space and time.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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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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The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
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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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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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Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks my country is Truth.
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Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
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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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