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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
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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Literary Critic
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Pride
Democracy
Wisdom
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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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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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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