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Famous Quotes By Henri Frederic Amiel
 Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. 
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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