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Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Tags: enchanted, heart, love

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: great, love, woman, great things

About Author
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French: [alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869) was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the French Second Republic and the continuation of the tricolore as the flag of France.

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: politics, congress, democracy, dogs, humor, representatives

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Tags: experience, wise, men, wise men

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: happiness, sympathy, grief, stronger

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: nature

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Alphonse de Lamartine

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Tags: love, angelic, human

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: travel, travellers, world, single, give

Peace at any price.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Peace at any price.

Tags: peace

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: history

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Tags: fallen god, god, heaven

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: absence

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

Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Tags: homo, sapiens

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Tags: one, day