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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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