Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 2

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• To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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• Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Upset

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• A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ninety Nine, Progress, Retreat

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Religious, Educational, Men

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Regret, Men, Perfect

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• The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Growth, Important

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• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Running, Perseverance, Healing

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• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Son, Love Is

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Powerful, Moving, Men

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• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Intelligence

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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• There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Hate, Way

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• Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Inspirational, Quality

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• Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Society, Accounts

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• Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Independent Women, Intelligent, Wish

  "Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri Frederic Amiel, Macmillan, transl. by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, True Love, Heart

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Littles, Causes, Little Things

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• True humility is contentment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Humble, Humility, Contentment

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• There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Health, Men

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Materialism, Vulgar

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• It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Courage, Grief, Recovery

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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