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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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 mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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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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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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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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