Quotes by Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on desire
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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on experience   

"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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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."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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"Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on habit   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on history and historians   

"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on passion   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on poetry and poets   

"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on time   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on speakers and speaking   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on life   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on science   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on love
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