Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Henri Frederic Amiel
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. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. — Henri Frederic Amiel
We must have the courage to be happy. — Henri Frederic Amiel
How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one — Henri Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel
A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides. — 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 — Henri Frederic Amiel
Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward in — Henri Frederic Amiel
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in t — Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. — Henri Frederic Amiel
How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubl — Henri Frederic Amiel
To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel