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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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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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