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Life alone can rekindle life.
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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True humility is contentment.
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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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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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