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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
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
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Oh, order! Material order, intellectual order, moral order! What a comfort and strength, and what an economy! To know where we are going and what we want; that is order. To keep ones word, to do the right thing, and at the right time: more order. To have everything under ones hand, to put ones whole army through its manoeuvres, to work with all ones resources: still order. To discipline ones habits and efforts and wishes, to organize ones life and distribute ones time, to measure ones duties and assert ones rights, to put ones capital and resources, ones talents and opportunities to profit: again and always order. Order is light, peace, inner freedom, self-determination: it is power. To conceive order, to return to order, to realize order in oneself, around oneself, by means of oneself, this is aesthetic and moral beauty, it is well-being, it is what ought to be.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
By Henri Frederic Amiel
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
By Henri Frederic Amiel