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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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 know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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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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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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