Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Common sense is the gauge of the possible.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature . . . is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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Henri Frédéric 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.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
It gives libery and breadth to thought to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy. When the duration of a man's life or of a people's life appears to us as microscopic as that of a fly, and inversely the life of a gnat as infinite as that of a celestial body, with all its dust of nations, we feel ourselves at once very small, and very great; and we are able, as it were, to survey from the height of spheres our own existence and the little whirlwinds which agitate our little world.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage and even of the wish for recovery.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Justice towards the weak becomes of necessity protection and kindness.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Life is an apprenticeship to constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
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Henri Frédéric Amiel
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.