Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own " prison - cell , " or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
... duty which keeps humanity sweet and living , was unfailing . His horizon was not bounded by his own " prison - cell , " or by that dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have ...
Page 89
... duty is no sooner divined than from that very moment it becomes binding upon us . Latent genius is but a presumption . Everything that can be , is bound to come into being , and what never comes into being is nothing . July 14 , 1859 ...
... duty is no sooner divined than from that very moment it becomes binding upon us . Latent genius is but a presumption . Everything that can be , is bound to come into being , and what never comes into being is nothing . July 14 , 1859 ...
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... duty only . Duty thus becomes our principle of action , our source of energy , the guarantee of our partial independence of the world , the condition of our dignity , the sign of our nobility . The world can neither make me will nor ...
... duty only . Duty thus becomes our principle of action , our source of energy , the guarantee of our partial independence of the world , the condition of our dignity , the sign of our nobility . The world can neither make me will nor ...
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