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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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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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