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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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 win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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