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Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Quotes (139)

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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