"Music is the literature of the heart; it……" — Alphonse de Lamartine
"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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75 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
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Kindness is virtue itself.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which…
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
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We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty…
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My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
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There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no…
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Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could…
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
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Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
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Human life commences at the time of conception.
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other.…
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by…
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of…
— Robert Breault
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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of…
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While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be…
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and…
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When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at…
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The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is…
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