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Letter "H" » Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
«To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.»
«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»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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narrowness
«A belief is not true because it is useful»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Belief
«Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them»
«Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Truth
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assimilate, assimilated, assimilating, communicated, contagion
«The great artist is the simplifier.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
«Common sense is calculation applied to life.»
«Common sense is the measure of the possible.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common sense
«Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Genius
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