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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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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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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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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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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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