Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

— Alphonse de Lamartine