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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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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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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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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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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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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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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