Henri Frederic Amiel

(1821–1881) Poet

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Doing good is the only way to stop hating those who hurt us, says the author. He notes that each feeling, like a flower, blooms briefly, and that we must cut knots of excess to reveal what truly matters in life.

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Henri Frederic Amiel was a poet.

Quick Facts About Henri Frederic Amiel

Born: September 27, 1821
Died: May 11, 1881
Profession: Poet

About Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

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Order

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The unfinished is nothing.

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Analysis kills spontaneity.

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Analysis

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True humility is contentment.

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Contentment

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Life alone can rekindle life.

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Chaos

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“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end”

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Beginning

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Time wasted is a theft from God.

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God

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The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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Art

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

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Cross

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Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

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Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

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Faith

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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

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Genius

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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...

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Analysis

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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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Destiny

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

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Greatness

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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

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Dark

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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

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Acting

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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the…

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Character

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object…

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Affection

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Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which…

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Clock

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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go…

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Better future

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The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of…

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Alchemy

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Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be…

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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to…

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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that…

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Anger

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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate…

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Chiefs

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One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A…

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and…

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Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its…

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Calm

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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air…

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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…

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Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all…

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Bounds

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The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether…

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Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

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Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

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Enters

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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

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Doubt

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Henri Frederic Amiel by topic

Life (42) Men (34) Love (30) Inspirational (25) Religion (18) Soul (17) Truth (15) Time (13) Self (13) Faith (13) Nature (12) Intelligence (11) Giving (11) Order (10)