Alphonse de Lamartine quotes - page 2

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. View quote
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. View quote
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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. View quote
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. View quote
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. View quote
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The first romantics were seers without even really realizing it: their soul's education began by accident: abandoned trains still smoking, occasionally taking to the tracks. Lamartine was a seer now and again, but strangling on old forms. Hugo, too pigheaded, certainly saw in his most recent works: Les Misérables is really a poem. I've got Les Chatiments with me; Stella gives some sense of Hugo's vision. Too much Belmontet and Lamennais with their Jehovahs and colonnades, massive crumbling edifices. View quote
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