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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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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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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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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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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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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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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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Life alone can rekindle life.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
