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Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse De Lamartine
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse De Lamartine
Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace ...
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
— 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
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
History teaches everything, even the future.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
— 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
Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
An artist should have more than two eyes.
— 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)
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away! — Alphonse De Lamartine
He speeds; we pass away! — Alphonse De Lamartine
A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Kindness is virtue itself.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Ink is the transcript of thought.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Mystery hovers over all things here below.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
— 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
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
Be happy while you may! — Alphonse De Lamartine
Be happy while you may! — Alphonse De Lamartine
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.
— 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
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
It is for truth that God created genius.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
— 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
Modesty and dew love the shade.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Good manners require space and time.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
— Alphonse De Lamartine
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
— Alphonse De Lamartine
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!
yes, the whole man,
as the crucible gold. — Alphonse De Lamartine
yes, the whole man,
as the crucible gold. — Alphonse De Lamartine
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Utopias are often just premature truths.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
At twenty every one is republican.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
God - but a word invoked to explain the world.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
All our tastes are but reminiscences.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
— Alphonse De Lamartine