Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel; Tr., with an Introduction and NotesMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 318 pages |
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Page xiii
... dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate man , what struck him even more than the teaching was the teacher . So that this memory of 1840 is still dear and precious to him , and for this double service , which is not of the ...
... dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate man , what struck him even more than the teaching was the teacher . So that this memory of 1840 is still dear and precious to him , and for this double service , which is not of the ...
Page xxviii
... dream , to feel , to learn , to understand - all these are possible to me if only I may be dispensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes it ...
... dream , to feel , to learn , to understand - all these are possible to me if only I may be dispensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes it ...
Page xxxix
... dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for ...
... dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for ...
Page xli
... dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we inhabit the last resting - place alone . But there is nothing to prevent us from opening our solitude to God . And so what was an austere monologue becomes dialogue , reluctance be ...
... dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we inhabit the last resting - place alone . But there is nothing to prevent us from opening our solitude to God . And so what was an austere monologue becomes dialogue , reluctance be ...
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... dreams I have are all vague and indefinite ; I ought not to live , for I am now scarcely capable of living . - Recognise your place ; let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling ...
... dreams I have are all vague and indefinite ; I ought not to live , for I am now scarcely capable of living . - Recognise your place ; let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling ...
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Page 164 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 240 - 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 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 298 - 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 83 - Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front, Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime, Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime, Ayant devant les yeux sans cesse, nuit et jour, Ou quelque saint labeur ou quelque grand amour.
Page 24 - Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image. Thus we have all a cure of souls. Every man is a...
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 11 - Moral force is then the vital point. And this force is only produced by moral force. Like alone acts upon like. Therefore do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love. Be what you wish others to become. Let yourself and not your words preach for you.
Page 293 - 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 vi - May it at least win a few more friends and readers here and there for one who lived alone, and died sadly persuaded that his life had been a barren mistake ; whereas, all the while — such is the irony of things — he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy, and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had impressed itself upon his youthful consciousness: — 'Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling...