I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Accept life, and you must accept regret.Henri Frederic Amiel
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The unfinished is nothing.
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