Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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... pure thought , " conversing with ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To this intoxication of thought he ...
... pure thought , " conversing with ideas , enjoying the inmost life of things . " ' Thought , ' he says somewhere in the Journal , is like opium . It can in- toxicate us and yet leave us broad awake . ' To this intoxication of thought he ...
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... pure solace should desert my mind , What were all else ? I dare not risk the loss . To the old paths , my soul ! ' And in close combination with the specu- lative sense , with the tendency which car- ries a man toward the contemplative ...
... pure solace should desert my mind , What were all else ? I dare not risk the loss . To the old paths , my soul ! ' And in close combination with the specu- lative sense , with the tendency which car- ries a man toward the contemplative ...
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... pure conscience . Prudence may be preached from this point of view too . Be ye simple as the dove and pru . dent as the serpent , ' are words of Jesus . Be careful of your reputation , not through vanity , but that you may not harm your ...
... pure conscience . Prudence may be preached from this point of view too . Be ye simple as the dove and pru . dent as the serpent , ' are words of Jesus . Be careful of your reputation , not through vanity , but that you may not harm your ...
Page 63
... pure , that so thou mayest have communion with the pure spirit . Withdraw thyself often into the sanctuary of thy inmost consciousness ; become once more point and atom , that so thou mayest free thyself from space , time , matter ...
... pure , that so thou mayest have communion with the pure spirit . Withdraw thyself often into the sanctuary of thy inmost consciousness ; become once more point and atom , that so thou mayest free thyself from space , time , matter ...
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... believe in it . I will have none of those passions of straw which dazzle , burn up , and wither ; I invoke , I await , and I hope for the love which is - great , pure , and earnest , which lives and 66 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... believe in it . I will have none of those passions of straw which dazzle , burn up , and wither ; I invoke , I await , and I hope for the love which is - great , pure , and earnest , which lives and 66 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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