“If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.”
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Famous Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
“Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
“Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!”
“Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!”
“History teaches everything, even the future.”
Source: History of the French Revolution of 1848
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
“My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.”
“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
Source: History of the French Revolution of 1848
“Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.”
“True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.”
Source: Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand
“Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.”
“Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”
Source: Les Confidences
“When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.”
“I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.”
“If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.”