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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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True humility is contentment.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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 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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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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