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 Image
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away! — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart,… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of… — 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 Image
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
