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:: 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian |
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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]
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Passion]
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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]
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Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Habit]
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Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [History and Historians]
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
~ Alphonse De Lamartine - [Desire]
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