Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 2

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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 fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Fire, Feelings

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• Joy is the vital air of the soul.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Air, Joy, Soul

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Elements, Absence

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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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• 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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• True humility is contentment.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Humble, Humility, Contentment

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Analysis

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Growth, Important

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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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• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Talent, Mark

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Success, Congratulations, Book

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  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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• The best path through life is the highway.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Path, Life Is, Highways

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