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Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."

"Will localizes us; thought universalizes us."

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

"Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!"

"Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality."

"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

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