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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.
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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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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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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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