Quote

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alphonse de Lamartine
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Foreign Minister
Historian
Poet
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
Earnestness
Intoxication
Enthusiasm

More quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine

Image
At twenty every one is republican.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
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
Image
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
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 Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!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
Image
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Image
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse de Lamartine