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Page xxiii
... instinct , ' he came to his desk as to an altar . ' ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had experienced during his years in ...
... instinct , ' he came to his desk as to an altar . ' ' A friend who knew him well , ' says M. Scherer , ' remembers having heard him speak with deep emotion of that lofty serenity of mood which he had experienced during his years in ...
Page xxv
... instincts of life , was in Amiel almost constant , and the natural impulse of the human animal towards healthy movement and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward ...
... instincts of life , was in Amiel almost constant , and the natural impulse of the human animal towards healthy movement and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward ...
Page xxix
... instinct remains , and must in some way be satisfied . And so he takes refuge in what he himself calls scales , exercises , tours de force in verse - translation of the most laborious and difficult kind , in ingenious vers d'occasion ...
... instinct remains , and must in some way be satisfied . And so he takes refuge in what he himself calls scales , exercises , tours de force in verse - translation of the most laborious and difficult kind , in ingenious vers d'occasion ...
Page xxxvii
... instinct , as one declares , ' with a strange and marvellous poetry ; ' full of phrases ' d'une intense suggestion de beauté , ' according to another . Not that the whole of the Journal flows with the same ease , the same felicity ...
... instinct , as one declares , ' with a strange and marvellous poetry ; ' full of phrases ' d'une intense suggestion de beauté , ' according to another . Not that the whole of the Journal flows with the same ease , the same felicity ...
Page xl
... instinct in him is as strong and tenacious as in any of the representative exponents of the life of faith . The intellect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His ...
... instinct in him is as strong and tenacious as in any of the representative exponents of the life of faith . The intellect is clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His ...
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Page 168 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 289 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 244 - Chacun se réveille à ce son, Les Brebis, le Chien, le Garçon. Le pauvre Loup, dans cet esclandre, Empêché par son hoqueton, Ne put ni fuir ni se défendre. Toujours par quelque endroit fourbes se laissent prendre. Quiconque est Loup agisse en Loup : C'est le plus certain de beaucoup.
Page 304 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page 299 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee? Seek, seeker, in thyself ; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page xli - Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Page 2 - Never to tire, never to grow cold ; to be patient, sympathetic, tender ; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart ; to hope always, like God ; to love always, — this is duty.
Page 9 - Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid.
Page 105 - The ideal, after all, is truer than the real : for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things : it is their type, their sum, their raison d'&tre, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most condensed expression of them.
Page 182 - It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German society, and its inferiority to the societies of France and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics.