Quotes by Henri Amiel

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Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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 teaching  

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Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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 being-yourself  

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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 perspective  

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.
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 desire  

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To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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 age  

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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
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 liberty  joy  difficulty  

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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.
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 passion  

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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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 self-discovery  

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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
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 health  

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