156 Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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It is for truth that God created genius.
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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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.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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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.
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Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!
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