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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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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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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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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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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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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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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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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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