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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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