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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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