Henri Frederic Amiel

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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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