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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss
Philosopher
Born:
Sep 27
,
1821
Died:
May 11
,
1881
Life
Man
More
Nothing
Truth
You
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Aristotle
Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
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
Life
Love
Time
Journey
Dark
Be Kind
Life Is Short
Too Much
Too
Too Much Time
Those
Kind
Haste
Never
Make
Hearts
Oh
Short
To Love
Us
Much
Who
Swift
Travelling
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
Thankful
Gratitude
Words
Beginning
Consist
Completion
Merely
Thankfulness
May
Shown
Acts
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth
Silence
Truth Is
Only
Outraged
Equally
Falsehood
May
Violated
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
Success
Future
You
Library
Better
Guess
Everything
Better Future
Written
Go
Been
Need
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
You
Man
Regret
Before
Must
Seeing
Insists
Perfect
Never
He
Clearness
Accept
Decide
Who
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music
Harmony
Our
Dream
Perfection
Heaven
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
Man
Passion
Before
Latent
Possibility
Give
Mere
Like
Force
Without
Shock
Iron
Which
Forth
Spark
Flint
Awaits
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Work
You
Light
Has-Been
Responsible
Entrusted
Talent
Been
While
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
People
Will
Clever
Nothing
Recognize
Clever People
Cleverness
Tolerate
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Genius
Impossible
Difficult
Others
Easily
Find
Talent
Doing
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Quality
Satisfied
Others
Ourselves
Charm
More
Makes
Us
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Health
Freedom
First
Liberties
First Of All
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
Best
Path
Through
Highway
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Hope
Uncertainty
Refuge
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man
Worth
Had
He
Does
Which
Even
Expresses
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
Faith
Life Is A
Inevitable
Every
Silent
Exercises
Influence
Profession
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Woman
Guardian
Affection
Past
Every
Some
Object
Disappeared
Pious
Which
Loving
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music
Art
Great
Soul
Song
Key
Will
Childish
Great Art
Changing
Guess
Must
Able
Vary
Attain
Simply
Know
Piece
Attraction
Learn
Read
How
Up
Interest
Might
Then
Teaching
Keep
Suggest
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
Art
Moral Authority
Be True
Eloquence
Secret
Virtue
Moral
Highest
True
Authority
Maxim
The Secret Of
Us
Let Us
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Fire
Consumes
Same
Which
Enlightens
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Analysis
Once
More
Spontaneity
Springs
Grain
Ground
Flour
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth
Dangerous
Degree
More
Proportion
Contains
Error
Which
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Relationship
Marry
Equally
Suffer
We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Only
Within
Understand
Which
Us
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth
Communication
Pure
Must
Crowd
Contagion
Cannot
Assimilated
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Be Happy
Happy
Courage
Live
Must
Incessantly
Conquer
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