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1. "Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
2. "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
3. "Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
4. "Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
5. "Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
6. "Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
7. "True humility is contentment." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
8. "Any landscape is a condition of the spirit." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
9. "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
10. "The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
11. "Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
12. "Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
13. "Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
14. "There is no respect for others without humility in one's self." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
15. "Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
16. "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
17. "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
18. "Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
19. "Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
20. "Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
21. "Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
22. "Uncertainty is the refuge of hope." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
23. "Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
24. "Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
25. "I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
26. "To know how to suggest is the art of teaching." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
27. "The stationary condition is the beginning of the end" ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
28. "It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
29. "all appears to change when we change" ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
30. "The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
31. "Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
32. "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
33. "If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion." ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel
34. "A belief is not true because it is useful" ~ Henri Frédéric Amiel

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In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished."
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