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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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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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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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