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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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