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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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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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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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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