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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
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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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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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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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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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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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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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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True humility is contentment.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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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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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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