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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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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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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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