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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
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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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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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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True humility is contentment.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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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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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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 man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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