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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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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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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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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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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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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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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