Personal journal

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God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Nature of God

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Topic

Inner life Thinking for oneself

Author

Henri Frederic Amiel

Source

Journals of Henri Frederic Amiel

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Amiel, Henri-Frédéric. Journal entry. 7 Jan. 1866.

Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Pepys

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Music

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1666 1660s 17th century

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Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Mar. 1666.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

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Punctuality

Author

Evelyn Waugh

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Waugh, Evelyn. Diary Entry. 26 March 1962.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

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Truth and lies Truth Lies

Author

Georges Braque

Source

Journals of Georges Braque

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Braque, Georges. Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52. Gallimard, 1952.

Current Citation

Braque, Georges. Illustrated Notebooks: 1917-1955, translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1971.

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

Anaïs Nin

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Sex

Author

Anaïs Nin

Source

Journals of Anaïs Nin

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Nin, Anaïs. "December, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

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Topic

Decline of democracy War Democracy

Author

Brooks Atkinson

Source

Once Around the Sun

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.

John Muir

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Wilderness Man and nature Nature

Author

John Muir

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. On either side it is pride, but understood in a different way.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Topic

England and France England France

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835 [Journeys to England and Ireland]. c. 1835.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Journeys to England and Ireland, translated by George Lawrence and K. P. Mayer. Routledge, 2017.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell

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Topic

Linguistic diversity Language

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1773 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 18 Sept. 1773.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

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Topic

Native American life

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Journals of Henry David Thoreau

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 26 Apr. 1841.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "April 26 [1841]." I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Yale University Press, 2007.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Early America Inscrutability of God

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Bradford, William. Letter to Thomas Weston. 1621.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 12.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

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Topic

Food

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Original Citation

Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Nov. 1665.

Current Citation

Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 9 Nov. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

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Alienation Existential solitude

Author

John Muir

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Topic

Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal entry. 18 May 1848.

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Topic

The devil

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

John Muir

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Mountains Man and nature

Author

John Muir

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Small beginnings

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 2 Aug. 1630.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 21.

We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Birds Nature scene

Author

Dorothy Wordsworth

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

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Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 16 Aug. 1803.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, Dorothy. "Journal entry 16 Aug. 1803." Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Yale University Press, 1997.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Francis Kilvert

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Spending time in nature Man and nature Nature

Author

Francis Kilvert

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Kilvert, Francis. Diary entry. 29 May 1871.