“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“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.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Category: success
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“Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Category: truth
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“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.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Category: communication
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“Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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