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What mortal is there, over who...

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

What is our life but a success...

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

All nature is the temple; eart...

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

And when night, guiding her br...

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.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Utopias are often just prematu...

Utopias are often just premature truths.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

We are earth's children, and l...

We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

He, who can create, abhors des...

He, who can create, abhors destruction.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Too much I've seen, and felt, ...

Too much I've seen, and felt, and lov'd in life, Living I come to seek Lethaean calm; Let me, fair scenes! forget all worldly strife, Oblivion solely is my bosom's balm.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Hence life, as through a cloud...

Hence life, as through a cloud, for me I see Vanish, and to the past's dark shade 'tis chas'd; As a grand image love remains to me-- Sole remnant of a dream, by morn effac'd.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

I love the people because I be...

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw of the dice, which chance had turned up for me, the day of my birth; and, with a secret, savage joy, I should say, 'So much the worse for the losers!--the world is a lottery. Woe to the conquered!

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

But Nature too, shakes off her...

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

There are places and climates,...

There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Man, it seems, is not able to ...

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.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

I am persuaded that if the bru...

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

My mother was convinced, and o...

My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

I say to this night: 'Pass mo...

I say to this night: 'Pass more slowly'; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Let us love the passing hour, ...

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

My dog! the difference between...

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

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

...to kill animals for the pur...

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Eternity is so certain and so ...

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Alphonse Lamartine 148 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....