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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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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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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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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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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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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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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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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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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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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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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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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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