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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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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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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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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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