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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
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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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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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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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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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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