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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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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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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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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