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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, Knight of Pratz (French: [alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin]; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869), 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.

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Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Earnestness, Enthusiasm, Intoxication

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Gentleness, Potent, Robed, Strength

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.

Bright, Calm, Darkness, Lonely, Sleep, Stars

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

Dog, Laughing, Life, Reason

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Grow, Passion, Political, Private, Tired

It is for truth that God created genius.

Created, Genius, God, Truth

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

Difference, Differences, Dog, Knows, Thee

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Animal, Brutality, Cruelty, Difference, Differences, Mankind

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

Ask, Founder, Greatness, Men, Regards, Spiritual

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

Desire, Heaven, Man, Men, Nature

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

Firefighter, Hero, Heroes, Latter, Race

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

Divinity, Faculty, God, Men, Thought

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Argument, Logical, Polite, Should

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

Day, Habit, Iron, Leads, Sinews

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

Arms, Battle, Fighting, Men, Rushes, Thickest

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Obtrude, Silence, Simplicity, Two, Woman

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Imagination, Poetry, Sentiment, Sentiments

An artist should have more than two eyes.

Art, Artist, Eye, Eyes, Should Have

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

France, Of1789, Political, Revolution

History teaches everything, even the future.

Art, Future, History, Philosophy, Teaches, Teaching

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