Quotes by Alphonse De Lamartine

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

#Women

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

#Experience

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common...

#Grief

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my...

#Alphonse De Lamartine

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

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities...

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers...

#Alphonse De Lamartine

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on...

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

#Alphonse De Lamartine

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are...

#Alphonse De Lamartine