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Letter "H" » Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
«True humility is contentment.»
«Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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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, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Mystery
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corner, examination, fallow, For any, Left Turn, ploughshare, self-examination, soil, turning, winds
«To marry unequally is to suffer equally.»
«Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Truth
«A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Action,
Thinking,
Truth
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«Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con»
«Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!»
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Music
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beaten, Beethoven, classic, dwell on, ethereal, grandeur, Mozart, Olympus, peaks, purity, represents, romantic, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, Sinai, storms, The Romantic
«Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.»
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