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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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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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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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