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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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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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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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of 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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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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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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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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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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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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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