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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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.Henri Frederic Amiel
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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