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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
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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