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Letter "H" » Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
«I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant»
«If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.»
«The best path through life is the highway.»
«In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.»
«A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
«To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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«What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.»
«To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.»
«We only understand that which already within us.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
«Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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