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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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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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