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Tuesday, October 9.
Example descends and does not ascend.
Rivarol. Truth: he caresses its surfaces, but never enters within.
...I call him an acid that is not sour.
October …8.
Philosophy: epic, lyric, didactic, dramatic (trag. and com.), oratorical, etc. The sententious, contentious.
Beware of the false oronge. (Make a symbol of this word.)
In free countries where there were slaves, children corrected by the blows they saw given.
“To take some of its festoons from the crown of the year.” (Vid. psal. 64) Te decet.
The year is a crown composed of flowers, ears of grain, fruits, and dry grasses.
Friday, October 12.
A disposition to believe what one hears said: a sign of a good nature.
Bossuet. He needs mud. He shares in the character of the supreme intelligence when it took earth, formed man, and gave him life.
Fénelon. Has more affinities with that same intelligence at the moment when, working with purer elements, it brought the angels into the light.
October 18.
To enjoy the well-being that comes from the whole sense of touch, or that which comes from a single point of touch. Or: To prefer being happy through one point of one’s existence to being happy through one’s entire existence.
Pope’s remark (on seeing unruly children who, at their father’s voice, left their games grumbling and came forward slowly): “the sad old men I see!”
October 14.
I shall not first examine whether this is true, but I shall examine whether it ought to be believed.
When you have substituted the habit of believing for the habit of disbelieving, then you will be able to feel... etc...