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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great 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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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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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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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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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