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Inspirational Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
- Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
- Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
- Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
- Common sense is calculation applied to life.
- It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
- The best path through life is the highway.
- Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
- To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
- To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
- For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
- Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
- The only substance properly so called is the soul.
- 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…
- Accept life, and you must accept regret.
- Hope is only the love of life.
- Analysis kills spontaneity.
- Love is faith and one faith leads to another.
- We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
- Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
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