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Destiny has two ways of crushing us by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible to talent is genius. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Great men are the true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over fear. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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It is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite things, and 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. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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Self interest is but the survival of the animal in us; humanity only begins for man with selfsurrender. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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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. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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What is an intelligent man ? A man who enters with case and completeness into the spirit of things and the intention of persons, and who arrives at an end by the shortest route. | Henry Frederick Amiel |
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