Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 2

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• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Angel, Men

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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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• 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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• Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Self, Wind

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Growth, Important

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Teacher, Art, Educational

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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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• 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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• Accept life, and you must accept regret.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Regret, Apology, Acceptance

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• Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Truth Is

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• Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Family

  Journal Intime 2 April (1865)

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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• Analysis kills spontaneity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Inspirational, Quality

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• True humility is contentment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Humble, Humility, Contentment

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

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  Truth, Materialism, Vulgar

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Littles, Causes, Little Things

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Upset

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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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