 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...relations which develop round the first — all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes.' But in vain. ' Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid. I am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself. The ideal poisons for me all imperfect... | |
 | Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin - American fiction - 1896 - 324 pages
...Spirit. Guided by the pencil marks, she read : ' ' The real disgusts me, and I cannot find the ideal. . . I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. . . Practical life makes me afraid. . . I am distrustful of myself, and of happiness, because I know... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Composers - 1902 - 264 pages
...the present, the irreparable, the necessary," writes Amiel, " repel 136 and even terrify me. . . . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough...the irreparable; practical life makes me afraid." Accordingly, men of this temperament are defeated in their search for beauty by an unconquerable shyness... | |
 | William Mathews - Success - 1903 - 442 pages
...personality, and the result was inaction. "The real," he wrote, "disgusts me, and I cannot find the ideal. ... I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. Practical life makes me afraid. ... I train my hand, and make sure of its capacity and skill; but the... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - Composers - 1905 - 324 pages
...Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary," writes Amiel, "repel and even terrify me. . . . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough...the irreparable; practical life makes me afraid." Accordingly, men of this temperament are defeated in their search for beauty by an unconquerable shyness... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1906 - 444 pages
...which would mortgage, as it were, his intellectual freedom. " The life of thought alone," he wrote, " seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity...irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid." And yet he knew that a certain amount of practical life was essential even to a true intellectual life, only... | |
 | United States - 1909 - 1110 pages
...relations which develop around the first — all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes." But in vain. " Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid. I . am distrustful of 'myself and of happiness because I know myself. The ideal poisons for me all... | |
 | Edith Emily Read Mumford - Character - 1925 - 278 pages
...possible to me, if only I may be dispensed from willing — I am always preparing but never accomplishing. I have too much imagination, conscience and penetration, and not enough character." He was a sensitive, impressionable boy of delicate health ; disposed, even in childhood, to take a... | |
 | John Cournos - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 494 pages
...sense of action, and forces him to put away any idea which requires willing, the making of a decision. "Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...from the irreparable; practical life makes me afraid. I am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself. The ideal poisons for me all imperfect... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1886 - 588 pages
...cross. I have a heart too easily reached : despair is easy to me. What might be spoils me for what is. So that reality, the present, the irreparable, the...the irreparable : practical life makes me afraid." Poor man ! he is conscious enough of his own defect, and, like all conscientious people, perhaps exaggerates... | |
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Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free... 
