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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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 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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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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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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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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