Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.


Henri Frederic Amiel

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HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of sufferin...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling...
HENRI FREDERICK AMIEL
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
All appears to change when we change.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by refl...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
A belief is not true because it is useful
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
all appears to change when we change
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what ...
HENRI-FRéDéRIC AMIEL
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
AMIEL
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
AMIEL
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
HENRI-FRÉDERIC AMIEL
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring ...
BARBARA AMIEL
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on t...
BARBARA AMIEL
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIEL
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was disto...
BARBARA AMIEL
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
BARBARA AMIEL
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. ...
BARBARA AMIEL
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if ...
BARBARA AMIEL
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It r...
BARBARA AMIEL
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIEL
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military...
BARBARA AMIEL
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIEL
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or w...
BARBARA AMIEL
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expe...
BARBARA AMIEL
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political ...
BARBARA AMIEL
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
BARBARA AMIEL
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIEL
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benef...
BARBARA AMIEL
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIEL
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling o...
BARBARA AMIEL
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIEL
I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on telev...
BARBARA AMIEL
But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speakin...
BARBARA AMIEL