Animal Quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine

8 Animal quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine

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Lamartine paints beasts with lyrical brushstrokes, turning ordinary fauna into poetic reflections on nature and humanity.

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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the…

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...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the…

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We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

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

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When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

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My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of…

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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

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

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Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger 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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History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

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Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.

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Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

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I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,…

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The most effective coquetry is innocence.

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

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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…

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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

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At twenty every one is republican.

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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…

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

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Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all…

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