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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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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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 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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The best path through life is the highway.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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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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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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