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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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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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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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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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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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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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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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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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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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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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