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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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 alone can rekindle life.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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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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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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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