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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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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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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Hope is only the love of life.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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