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Nothing Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
- 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.
- He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
- Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite…
- Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world…
- Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
- Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
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