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Henri Frederic Amiel

"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Cute Love    Love    Lovers    Sweet Love    Swiss Philosopher   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"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." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Teachers And Teaching   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution." Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Action   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Cleverness   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel

"Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Secrets   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Self-improvement    Swiss Philosopher   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Swiss Philosopher   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Swiss Philosopher   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Swiss Philosopher   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence" Henri Frederic Amiel
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Falsehood   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Mountains    Thoughts And Thinking   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark" Henri Frederic Amiel
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Force   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"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" Henri Frederic Amiel
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Art   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The thirst for truth is not a French passion" Henri Frederic Amiel
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Passion   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Existence   

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Order is a great person's need and their true well being." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel

"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not." Henri Frederic Amiel
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Grace    Swiss Philosopher   



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