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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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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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