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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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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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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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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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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Hope is only the love of life.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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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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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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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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