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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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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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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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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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