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Henri Frederic Amiel has 194 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in…
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey…
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,…
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…
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Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy…
— William Wordsworth
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom,…
— Robert Burns
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by…
— Mortimer Collins
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I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.
— Thomas Mann
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Soldiers of the ploughshare aswell as soldiers of the sword.
— John Ruskin
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