Alphonse de Lamartine
Poet and statesman
1790-10-21 – 1869-02-28
Alphonse de Lamartine was a French poet, author, and statesman associated with French Romanticism.
Books by Alphonse de Lamartine
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Graziella
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Histoire de la révolution de 1848
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Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?
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Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?
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Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
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Argument should be polite as well as logical.
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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind-it is only the difference in the victim.
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If God is thy father, man is thy brother.
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Man is God by his faculty for thought.
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Fiction is the microscope of truth.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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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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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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