Top 132 Quotes & Sayings by Alphonse de Lamartine - Page 3

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

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

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

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.

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

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

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.

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?

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

He, who can create, abhors destruction.