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" Do not despise your situation ; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. There are two states or conditions of pride. The first is one of self-approval, the second one of self-contempt.... "
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Page 71
by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 487 pages
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Amiel's Journal, tr. by mrs. H. Ward, Volume 1

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...truth, a will, a work of God. Liberty has become nature; the creature is one with its creator—one through love. It is what it ought to be; its education...whole being. Seated motionless upon a bench on the Tranches, beside the slopes clothed with moss and tapestried with green, I passed some intense delicious...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite. ' ' . ' N There are two states or conditions of pride. The first...pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the sunshine —...
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Journal: The Journal Intime

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...ourselves, become spontaneous and involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life — that is to say, something more than our property. So long...think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. \st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...ourselves, become spontaneous and involuntary, instinctive and unconscious, are really our life — that is to say, something more than our property. So long...pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st February 1854. — A walk. The atmosphere incredibly pure — a warm, caressing gentleness in the sunshine —...
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Journal: The Journal Intime, Volume 1

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...blessedness arises. Our fleshly hearts may call this mysticism. It is the mysticism of Jesus : ' 1 am one with my Father ; ye shall be one with me. We...relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, bv showing that we look. by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. 1st...
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Christian Conversion

Arthur Thomas Guttery - Conversion - 1920 - 332 pages
...chorus of mutual and personal testimony, that an experience gains clarity and force. Amiel says truly :1 "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by aifirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by. writing that we think, by pumping that we draw...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...philosopher. Democracy in America, vol. 2, pt. 3, ch. 9 (1 840). See also Hope on ADOIESCENCE. GIVE AND TAKE 1 d a considerable part HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL [1821-81), Swiss philosopher, poet. journal tnlime (\Bb2;\r. by Mrs. Humphry...
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(K)New Words

Gloria Pierre - 2005 - 212 pages
...to something else. Cohesive — sticking together as a group. Affirm: to state positively. It's only by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that...by showing that we look, by writing that we think. Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881 Synonyms: profess, validate, endorse Affluent: having a continuous flow...
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Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Larry Chang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 826 pages
...themselves in cities and towns. ~ Liu Yiming, bc 1737 ~ Awakening to the Too, Thomas Cleary, tr., 1988 It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating...that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the ~ Henri-Frederic Amiel 1821-1881 ~ As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...
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Gigantic Book of Teacher's Wisdom

Erin Gruwell - Education - 2007 - 808 pages
...everybody that will employ them — the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — HENRY WARD BEECHER It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating...think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. — HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you...
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