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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete 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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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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True humility is contentment.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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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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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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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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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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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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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