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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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