| 21 Famous Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing”
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“To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.”
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“Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.”
Grace Quotes |
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“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”
Materialism Quotes |
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“Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.”
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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
Age Quotes |
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“Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
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“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
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“Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. -Henri Frederic Amiel.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
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“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”
Life Quotes |
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“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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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“Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.”
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“So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.”
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“It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
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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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“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
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“Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.”
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“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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