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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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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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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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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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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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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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