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True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Alphonse Marie de Lamartine
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Music is the literature of the heart it commences where speech ends.
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 photographer will never replace the painter one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
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Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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
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
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
Alphonse de Lamartine
...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
I say to this night: Pass more slowly and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
Alphonse de Lamartine
