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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.
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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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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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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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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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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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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