Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 4

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

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  Race, May, Weakness

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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  Children, Blessed, Childhood

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• So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

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  Change, Self, Long

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• We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

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  Heart, Order, May

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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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• It is work which gives flavor to life.

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  Work, Giving, Flavor

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• Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

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  Men, Order, Needs

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

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  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, And Love

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• Analysis kills spontaneity.

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  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

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  Men, Wickedness, Succeed

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• We only understand that which already is within us.

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• Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

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  Self, Numbers, Wish

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• A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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  Men, Understanding

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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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• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

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  Art, Mean, Loss

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

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  Past, Priestesses, Pious

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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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• 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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  Happiness, Moon, Shining

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• Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Earth

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• To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

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  Life, Substance, Tissues

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

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  Landscape, Spirit, American Landscape

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• To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

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  Marriage, Suffering

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• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

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  Roots, Religion, Enthusiasm

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