A biographical sketch: the poetical med...
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Source: Méditations poétiques
Source: History of Turkey
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“Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.”
“It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.”
“Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.”
“Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.”
Source: Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand
“The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.”
“Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.”
Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters
“Void of freedom, what would virtue be?”
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...
“He, who can create, abhors destruction.”
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People
Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
Source: Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People
“I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.”
“Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.”
“Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.”
“Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.”
“Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!”
“Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.”
“A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.”
“History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”