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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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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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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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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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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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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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