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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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True humility is contentment.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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