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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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