Best Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel (Top 10)
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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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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
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
More Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel