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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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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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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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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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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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