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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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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!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
Alphonse de Lamartine
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
Alphonse de Lamartine
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men hence, fancy often allures them.
Alphonse de Lamartine
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
If they say you have your last chance to look at the world, I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
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