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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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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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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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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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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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