Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page 39
... ourselves , Let us also be men . Co 3d March 1852. Opinion has its value and even its power : to have it against us is painful when we are among friends , and - harmful in the case of the outer world . AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 39.
... ourselves , Let us also be men . Co 3d March 1852. Opinion has its value and even its power : to have it against us is painful when we are among friends , and - harmful in the case of the outer world . AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 39.
Page 46
... ourselves depths which make us giddy , inextinguishable needs , treasures of suffering . Welcome tempests ! at least they blur and trouble the surface of these waters with their terrible secrets . Wel- come the passion blasts which stir ...
... ourselves depths which make us giddy , inextinguishable needs , treasures of suffering . Welcome tempests ! at least they blur and trouble the surface of these waters with their terrible secrets . Wel- come the passion blasts which stir ...
Page 58
... ourselves in spite of the evil and the disease . And let us never be afraid of innocent joy ; God is good , and what He does is well done ; resign yourself to everything , even to happi- ness ; ask for the spirit of sacrifice , of de ...
... ourselves in spite of the evil and the disease . And let us never be afraid of innocent joy ; God is good , and what He does is well done ; resign yourself to everything , even to happi- ness ; ask for the spirit of sacrifice , of de ...
Page 63
... ourselves from all that can be taken away from us , to ac- cept everything as a loan and a gift , and to cling only to the imperishable , — this at any rate we can attempt . To believe in a good and fatherly God , who educates us , who ...
... ourselves from all that can be taken away from us , to ac- cept everything as a loan and a gift , and to cling only to the imperishable , — this at any rate we can attempt . To believe in a good and fatherly God , who educates us , who ...
Page 72
... ourselves are smaller . It is a strange result . Objective civilisation produced great men while making no con- scious effort towards such a result ; sub- jective civilisation produces a miserable and imperfect race , contrary to its ...
... ourselves are smaller . It is a strange result . Objective civilisation produced great men while making no con- scious effort towards such a result ; sub- jective civilisation produces a miserable and imperfect race , contrary to its ...
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