Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse de Lamartine
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, chevalier de Pratz, was a French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France...
country men patriotism
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.
space good-man manners
Good manners require space and time.
mother sweet loss
The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!
dog laughing reason
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
moving people feels
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
country truth thinking
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
literature newspapers
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.
animal purpose flesh
...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state
hero race firefighter
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
love fruit lifetime
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
passion tire
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
istanbul wish looks
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.
sweet eye night
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
time heartless may
Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!