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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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