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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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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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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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