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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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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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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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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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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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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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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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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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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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