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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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to limit yourself to content yourself with some definite work dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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 can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, A semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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