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Inspirational Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
- Kindness is virtue itself.
- Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
- Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
- Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
- The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
- When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
- Man is God by his faculty for thought.
- Fiction is the microscope of truth.
- It is for truth that God created genius.
- Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
- Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.
- The most effective coquetry is innocence.
- Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
- Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
- At twenty every one is republican.
- All nature is the temple; earth the altar.
- Utopias are often just premature truths.
- He, who can create, abhors destruction.
- I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
- There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
- To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
- Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
- History teaches everything, even the future.
- Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
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