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.Henri Frederic Amiel
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
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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