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 xv
... never be forgotten in any critical estimate of Amiel as a man or writer . We may so easily conceive him as a sedentary professor , with the ordinary professorial knowledge , or rather ignorance , of men and the world , falling into ...
... never be forgotten in any critical estimate of Amiel as a man or writer . We may so easily conceive him as a sedentary professor , with the ordinary professorial knowledge , or rather ignorance , of men and the world , falling into ...
Page xviii
... never came to Paris . Paris , he thinks , would have counteracted the Hegelian influences brought to bear upon him at Berlin , * would have taught him cheerfulness , and taught him also the art of writ- ing , not beautiful fragments ...
... never came to Paris . Paris , he thinks , would have counteracted the Hegelian influences brought to bear upon him at Berlin , * would have taught him cheerfulness , and taught him also the art of writ- ing , not beautiful fragments ...
Page xxv
... never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from his boyhood , and then the depressing influences of the social ...
... never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from his boyhood , and then the depressing influences of the social ...
Page xxvii
... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitanism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
... never learnt to appreciate him at his true worth . We did justice no doubt to a knowledge as varied as it was wide , to his vast stores of reading , to that cosmopolitanism of the best kind which he had brought back with him from his ...
Page xxix
... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
... never accomplishing , and my energy is swallowed up in a kind of barren curiosity . ' Not that he surrenders himself to the nature which is stronger than he all at once . His sense of duty rebels , his conscience suffers , and he makes ...
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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...