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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
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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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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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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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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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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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