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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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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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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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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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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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