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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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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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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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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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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