110+ Alphonse De Lamartine Quotes On Education, Muhammad And Romantic

Alphonse De Lamartine was a French poet, writer and statesman of the Romantic era. He was born in 1790 and is best known for his poem "Le Lac" which is one of the most famous examples of French Romantic poetry. Lamartine was a major political figure in France, serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and a Senator. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine on love, education, muhammad.

Top 10 Alphonse De Lamartine Quotes

1. If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
2. If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
3. There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
4. Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
5. Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
6. The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
7. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
8. Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
9. If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?
10. Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Alphonse De Lamartine Image Quotes

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Alphonse De Lamartine Short Quotes

• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.
• Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
• There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
• There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
• A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
• An artist should have more than two eyes.
• Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
• Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
• Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Alphonse De Lamartine Quotes About Love

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it. — 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 not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd. — Alphonse De Lamartine

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous. — Alphonse De Lamartine

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Modesty and dew love the shade. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Alphonse De Lamartine Famous Quotes And Sayings

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. — Alphonse De Lamartine

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim. — Alphonse De Lamartine

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. — Alphonse De Lamartine

All nature is the temple; earth the altar. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. — Alphonse De Lamartine

My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Good manners require space and time. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Utopias are often just premature truths. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The most effective coquetry is innocence. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Ink is the transcript of thought. — Alphonse De Lamartine

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold. — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848) — 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 their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God. — Alphonse De Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason. — Alphonse De Lamartine

At twenty every one is republican. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Argument should be polite as well as logical. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. — Alphonse De Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers. — 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

Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn! — Alphonse De Lamartine

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope. — Alphonse De Lamartine

He, who can create, abhors destruction. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is for truth that God created genius. — Alphonse De Lamartine

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be? — Alphonse De Lamartine

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away! — Alphonse De Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Unanimity is the mistress of strength. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life. — Alphonse De Lamartine

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm. — Alphonse De Lamartine

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Kindness is virtue itself. — Alphonse De Lamartine

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Fiction is the microscope of truth. — 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 expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue. — Alphonse De Lamartine

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh. — Alphonse De Lamartine

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Man is God by his faculty for thought. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves. — 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 confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization. — Alphonse De Lamartine

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. — Alphonse De Lamartine

History teaches everything, even the future. — Alphonse De Lamartine

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. — Alphonse De Lamartine

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

Life Lessons by Alphonse De Lamartine

1. Alphonse De Lamartine taught that life is a journey and it is important to take the time to appreciate the beauty and joy that comes with it.
2. He also believed that it is important to find strength in adversity and to remain hopeful even when faced with difficult times.
3. Lastly, he advocated for the power of love and friendship and the importance of cherishing those relationships in our lives.