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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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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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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The best path through life is the highway.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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