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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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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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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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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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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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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