| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 588 str.
...to be impartial, — more exactly, to be disinterested, — more exactly still, to be impersonal. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. p • • • • • • Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1889 - 378 str.
...to be impartial, — more exactly, to be disinterested, — more exactly still, to be impersonal To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 str.
...5288 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield ) : Endymion. Ch. 61. TALENT — xee Authors, Genius, Nature. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. 5289 Amiel : Journal, Oct. 27, 1856. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Talent is that which is in a... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 str.
...comes into being is nothing. 1974 Amiel : Journal, Dec. 13, 1858. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. 1975 Amiel : Journal, Oct. 27, 1856. ( Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator. ) Genius is mainly an affair... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1890 - 376 str.
...to be impartial, — more exactly, to be disinterested, — more exactly still, to be impersonal To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1890 - 378 str.
...to be impartial, — more exactly, to be disinterested, — more exactly still, to be impersonal To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. I Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but (according to our powers. If nationality... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1890 - 336 str.
...selfapproval, the second one of self-couternpt. Pride is seen probably at its puresl in the last. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent ia the mark of genius. Chateaubriand posed all his life as the wearied Colossus, smiling pitifully... | |
| Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1891 - 378 str.
...therefo:e to be impartial,—more exactly, to be disinterested,—more exactly still, to be impersonal To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...duty is to be useful, not according to our desires b-: according to our powers. If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Self-interest is but... | |
| 1895 - 406 str.
...To do easily what is difficult for others is a mark of talent ; [that is, the result of true study]; to do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. " That is, self-acting power for progress and betterment. Here I cannot easily translate Schumann,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 528 str.
...to be impartial — more exactly, to be disinterested — more exactly still, to be impersonal. To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark...according to our desires, but according to our powers. The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life,... | |
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