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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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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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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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True humility is contentment.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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