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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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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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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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