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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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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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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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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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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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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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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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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True humility is contentment.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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