Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
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“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”
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“The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.”
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“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
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“Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.”
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“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”
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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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“Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.”
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“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?”
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“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.”
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“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
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“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
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“Utopias are often just premature truths.”
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“Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.”
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“Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.”
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“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.”
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“Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”
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“True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.”
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“Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.”
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“The most effective coquetry is innocence.”
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“Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.”
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“Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.”
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“We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.”
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“What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?”
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“Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.”
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“Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.”
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“He, who can create, abhors destruction.”
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“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!”
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