Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."
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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."
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"To marry unequally is to suffer equally."
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"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
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"True humility is contentment."
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"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
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"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
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"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
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"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."
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"Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence."
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"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
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"Order is power."
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"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
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"The best path through life is the highway."
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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."
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"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
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"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
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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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"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
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