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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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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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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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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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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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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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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 do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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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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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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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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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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