Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page 37
... respecting itself above all , disdaining the visible and the universe , and developing itself after its own laws alone , is also the ideal of Emerson , the Stoic of a young America . According to it , man finds his joy in himself , and ...
... respecting itself above all , disdaining the visible and the universe , and developing itself after its own laws alone , is also the ideal of Emerson , the Stoic of a young America . According to it , man finds his joy in himself , and ...
Page 47
... stifled in me ? I shrink and draw back , for fear of breaking my dream . I have staked so much on this card that I dare not play it . Let me dream again . • Do no violence to yourself , respect in yourself the AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 47.
... stifled in me ? I shrink and draw back , for fear of breaking my dream . I have staked so much on this card that I dare not play it . Let me dream again . • Do no violence to yourself , respect in yourself the AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 47.
Page 48
... respect in yourself the oscillations of feeling . They are your life and your nature ; One wiser than you ordained them . Do not abandon yourself altogether either to instinct or to will . Instinct is a siren , will a despot . Be ...
... respect in yourself the oscillations of feeling . They are your life and your nature ; One wiser than you ordained them . Do not abandon yourself altogether either to instinct or to will . Instinct is a siren , will a despot . Be ...
Page 49
... What hours , what memories ! The traces which remain to us of them are enough to fill us with respect and enthusiasm , as though they had been visits of the Holy Spirit . - And then , to fall back again from these AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 49.
... What hours , what memories ! The traces which remain to us of them are enough to fill us with respect and enthusiasm , as though they had been visits of the Holy Spirit . - And then , to fall back again from these AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 49.
Page 60
... respect for the soul , the very nobility of man . To defend the soul , its interests , its rights , its dignity , is the most pressing duty for whoever sees the danger . What the writer , the teacher , the pastor , the philosopher , has ...
... respect for the soul , the very nobility of man . To defend the soul , its interests , its rights , its dignity , is the most pressing duty for whoever sees the danger . What the writer , the teacher , the pastor , the philosopher , has ...
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