Alphonse de Lamartine - Man Quotes

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

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

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

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

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

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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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

Alphonse de Lamartine