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Henri Frederic Amiel




  • Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.





  • A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.





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





  • Learn to..be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.





  • Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.





  • The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.





  • Almost everything comes from almost nothing.





  • A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety - nine retreat; that is progress.





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





  • Faith is a certitude without proofs...a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.





  • An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.





  • Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.





  • Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.





  • Time waster is a theft from God.





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





  • Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary - line and adding to one's liberty.





  • We must have the courage to be happy.





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





  • 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.





  • 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.





  • Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.





  • The great artist and thinker are the simplifier.





  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.





  • To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.




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