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If women only knew the extent of their power! — Alphonse Karr

Man is born barbarous
he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — 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

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. — Alphonse Daudet

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I do not believe in any wise man until I have heard him say << I doubt it>> three times and << I don't know >> two times. — Alphonse Karr

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless.
He speeds; we pass away! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable. — Alphonse Karr

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais

Hate is the wrath of the weak. — Alphonse Daudet

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. — Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Music is another planet. — Alphonse Daudet

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. — Alphonse Karr

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!
yes, the whole man,
as the crucible gold. — Alphonse De Lamartine

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. — Alphonse Karr

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message — Alphonse Mucha

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. — Alphonse Karr

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world — Alphonse De Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. — 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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. — 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

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. — Alphonse Karr

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I've sacrificed lots of aspects of my personal life to do what I do. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

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

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness. — Alphonse Karr

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I think that's an interesting point of being a songwriter, is to write songs that make people think. — Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. — Alphonse De Lamartine

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr

Utopias are often just premature truths. — 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

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. — Alphonse De Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. — 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

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

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr

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

Unanimity is the mistress of strength. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never. — 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

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. — Alphonse Karr

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

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. — Alphonse Karr

Women's glances express what they dare not speak. — Alphonse Karr

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty. — Alphonse Karr

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. — Alphonse Daudet

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. — Alphonse Karr

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

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty. — Alphonse Karr

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. — Alphonse Allais

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. — Alphonse Karr

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. — Alphonse De Lamartine

all nature is at war — Alphonse Pyrame De Candolle

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

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala