He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. -
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. -
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. -
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. -
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.