 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...that of the divine, every creature worth loving. Kindness is the principle of tact, and respect for others the first condition of savoir-vivre. He who...up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end—it is the terrible symptom which precedes death. To live, is to achieve a perpetual triumph:... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...loving. Kindness is the principle of tact, and respect for others the first condition of sawir-vivre. He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is...up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end—it is the terrible symptom which precedes death. To live, is to achieve a perpetual triumph :... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Swiss literature (French) - 1893 - 852 pages
...and night. Kindness is the principle of tact, and respect for others the first condition of savmrHe who is silent is forgotten ; he who abstains is taken...gives up; the stationary condition is the beginning of th« end — it is the terrible symptom which precedes death. To live, is to achieve a perpetual triumph... | |
 | William Mathews - English essays - 1896 - 364 pages
...the prizes of life are not won by such shy folk. " He who is silent," says Amiel, " is forgotten ; he who does not advance, falls back ; he who stops...greater, becomes smaller ; he who leaves off, gives up. ... To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph ; it is to assert one's self against destruction, against... | |
 | William Mathews - American essays - 1896 - 368 pages
...the prizes of life are not won by such shy folk. " He who is silent," says Amiel, " is forgotten ; he who does not advance, falls back ; he who stops...greater, becomes smaller ; he who leaves off, gives up. ... To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph ; it is to assert one's self against destruction, against... | |
 | 1903 - 364 pages
..."He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance goes back: he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed;...up; the stationary condition is the beginning of the end,—it is the terrible symptom which precedes death. To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph;... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1903 - 442 pages
...but the prizes of life are not won by such shy folk. "He who is silent," says Amiel, "is forgotten; he who does not advance, falls back; he who stops...greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up. ... To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph; it is to assert one's self against destruction, against... | |
 | Maxims - 1905 - 330 pages
...look for it in our hearts. — FARRAR. He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance, falls; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he...greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up. — AMIEL. (149) The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions... | |
 | Joseph Collins - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 330 pages
...in these random quotations from the "Journal" during the record of many years. At thirty he wrote, "He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is...is to achieve a perpetual triumph ; it is to assert oneself against destruction, against sickness, against the annulling and dispersion of one's physical... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. — Emerson. .-*• «•> who is silent is forgotten; he who ! abstains is taken...stationary condition is the beginning of the end. — Amiel. Page 30 SOUNG men, life is before you. Two voices are calling you — one coming out from... | |
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He who is silent is forgotten ; he who abstains is taken at his word ; he who does not advance, falls back ; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed ; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller ; he who leaves off, gives up ; the stationary... 
