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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
Knowledge
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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