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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... thing to be understood and absorbed he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , of a wide and ...
... thing to be understood and absorbed he must have passed these years of travel and acquisition in a state of continuous ... things , countries , peoples , books ; I have a greater mass of experiences . ' This fact , indeed , of a wide and ...
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... things : ' What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum . And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
... things : ' What I desire is the sum of all desires , and what I seek to know is the sum of all different kinds of knowledge . Always the complete , the absolute , the teres atque rotundum . And it was this antagonism , or rather this ...
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... things were the offspring could have no real importance , no profitable message , for the world . The whole Journal Intime is in some sense Amiel's explanation of these facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his ...
... things were the offspring could have no real importance , no profitable message , for the world . The whole Journal Intime is in some sense Amiel's explanation of these facts . In it he has made full and bitter confession of his ...
Page xxxix
... thing , within the wide range of modern activities which he has not at one time or other felt the attraction of , and ... things . ' And , although a certain fatal spiritual weakness debarred him to a great extent from the world of ...
... thing , within the wide range of modern activities which he has not at one time or other felt the attraction of , and ... things . ' And , although a certain fatal spiritual weakness debarred him to a great extent from the world of ...
Page xli
... things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elaborated by human history , the only revelation of God . The only but the sufficient revelation ! For this first article of a reasonable creed is the key to all else the ...
... things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elaborated by human history , the only revelation of God . The only but the sufficient revelation ! For this first article of a reasonable creed is the key to all else the ...
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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...