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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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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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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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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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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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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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