Alphonse de Lamartine - Time Quotes

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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!

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!

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

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

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The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

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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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Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

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