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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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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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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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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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We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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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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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
True humility is contentment.
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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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