Quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine

Alphonse De Lamartine

French Poet, Statesman, Historian

Alive from: 1790-1869

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

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  Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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  Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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  Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

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  Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

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

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  Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

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  Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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  Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

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

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  Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

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  Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

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  The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

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  The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

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  There is a woman at the begining of all great things.