Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Men

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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.

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  Courage, Grief, Recovery

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• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

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  Life, Responsibility, Ambition

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• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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  Clever, Intelligence, Cleverness

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

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  Time

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• As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

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  Impossible

  Entry for July 16, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

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  Kindness, Heart, Dark

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• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

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  Genius, Talent, Mark

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• Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

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  Reality, Doubt, Ends

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• At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

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  Soul, Elements, Absence

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• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

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  Music, Dream, Peace

  Entry for March 17, 1870, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

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  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

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• The best path through life is the highway.

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  Path, Life Is, Highways

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• Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

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  Religious, Philosophy, Mean

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• Joy is the vital air of the soul.

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  Air, Joy, Soul

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• Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

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  Art, Truth, Secret

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• Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

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  Time, Space, Use

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• Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

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  Flower, Heart, Looks

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• It is work which gives flavor to life.

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  Work, Giving, Flavor

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• I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

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  Pride, Rights, Long

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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  Science, Common Sense, Experience

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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• Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, And Love

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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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  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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• Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

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  Memories, Space, Perceive

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