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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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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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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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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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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