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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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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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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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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