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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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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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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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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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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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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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