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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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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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