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Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Activity category:
For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Activity category:
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Freedom category:
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Genius category:
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Grace category:
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not... (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Health category:
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Imagination category:
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Individuality category:
Absolute individualism is an absurdity. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Joy category:
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Passion category:
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. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Simplicity category:
The great artist is the simplifier. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Suffering category:
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Thought category:
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order to not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Time category:
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Henri-Frederic Amiel - From the Wisdom category:
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
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