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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
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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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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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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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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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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