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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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[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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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