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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 depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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 man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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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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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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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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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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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 musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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