Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

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Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day!

Alphonse de Lamartine
Life is a mournful silence in which the heart ever calls.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Let us love! let us enjoy the fugitive hour! Man has no harbor, time has no shores: it runs, and we pass!

Alphonse de Lamartine
O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!

Alphonse de Lamartine
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine
There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

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Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.

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O Time! arrest your flight, and you, propitious hours, stay your course.

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What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Alphonse de Lamartine
Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine
A fan is indispensable to a woman who can no longer blush.

Alphonse de Lamartine
As goes the art, so goes the organ; vocation is but a more accomplished organism

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

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

Alphonse de Lamartine
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! Yes, the whole man, as the crucible gold!

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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

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

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A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Each art has its language, its poetry and its eloquence.

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With the exception of poetry or eloquence—those immaterial arts which only require a word or a pen—all the other arts require a material: blocks of marble for the sculptor, canvas and colors for the painter. Only the musician requires a performer. That is why we can so rarely be given the pleasure of hearing the soul of a great musician in his work.

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There are as many arts as there are senses for man; each sense has its own.

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By a more sophisticated sense of hearing, the musician can perceive in sonorous nature the modulations of sounds more completely than others.

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