Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
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 Quote
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
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.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
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.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
The best path through life is the highway.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
- Henri Frederic Amiel Quote
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.
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