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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.
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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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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 man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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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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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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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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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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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Hope is only the love of life.
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