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Amiel, Henri Frederic
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life and you must accept regret.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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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Henri Frederic Amiel
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and 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.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
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Henri-Fr?d?ric Amiel
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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