1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Conscience]
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Experience]
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Grief]
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Habit]
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Cities and City Life]
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Desire]
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Poetry and Poets]
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Passion]
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [History and Historians]
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Sentiment]
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Heroes and Heroism]
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Speakers and Speaking]
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse De Lamartine – [Achievement]