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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

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

Success

Future

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny

Wishes

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life

Common sense

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Cleverness

Nothing

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Quality

Charm

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Spirit

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Talent

Genius

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth

Error

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.