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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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