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" Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. "

Henri Frederic Amiel

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" I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. "

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" Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. "

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" To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. "

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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. "

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" Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. "

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" He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. "

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" Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. "

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" If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. "

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" An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. "

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" 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. "

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" The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. "

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" 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. "

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" Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. "

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" 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. "

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" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. "

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" For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. "

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" Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. "

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" Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. "

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" Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. "

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" Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. "

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" 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. "

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