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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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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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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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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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