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? — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys — Alphonse De Lamartine Copy Share
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
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,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
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… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
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… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share
