Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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