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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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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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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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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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