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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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Notre-Dame-des-Vignes
Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness is virtue itself.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
Alphonse de Lamartine
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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.
Alphonse de Lamartine
France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
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
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
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
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
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
An artist should have more than two eyes.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
Alphonse de Lamartine
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
