"What is our life but a succession of……" — Alphonse de Lamartine
"What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?"
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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75 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine has 75 quotes on this site.
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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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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every…
— J. J. Abrams
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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