Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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... sung a number of songs , drinking songs , ballads , romances , but all more or less heavy and ugly . The muse has never touched our country people , and the Swiss race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A AMIEL'S JOUrnal . 3.
... sung a number of songs , drinking songs , ballads , romances , but all more or less heavy and ugly . The muse has never touched our country people , and the Swiss race is not graceful even in its gaiety . A AMIEL'S JOUrnal . 3.
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... never to say that period or a people is absolutely and as a whole superior to another time or another people , but only that there is superiority in certain points . The great difference be- tween man and man would , on these prin ...
... never to say that period or a people is absolutely and as a whole superior to another time or another people , but only that there is superiority in certain points . The great difference be- tween man and man would , on these prin ...
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... never too much time for gladden- ing the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us . Oh , be swift to love , make haste to be kind ! dear friend A beautiful 26th December 1868. My died this morning at Hyères . soul has ...
... never too much time for gladden- ing the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us . Oh , be swift to love , make haste to be kind ! dear friend A beautiful 26th December 1868. My died this morning at Hyères . soul has ...
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... never speaks out her whole thought , and more- over what she herself knows of it is but a part of what it really is . Complete frankness seems to be impossible to her , and complete self - knowledge seems to be forbidden her . If she is ...
... never speaks out her whole thought , and more- over what she herself knows of it is but a part of what it really is . Complete frankness seems to be impossible to her , and complete self - knowledge seems to be forbidden her . If she is ...
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... never been the law of societies . It is too often by employing one vice against another , for example , vanity against cupidity , greed against idle- néss , - that the great agitators have broken through routine . In a word , the human ...
... never been the law of societies . It is too often by employing one vice against another , for example , vanity against cupidity , greed against idle- néss , - that the great agitators have broken through routine . In a word , the human ...
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