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Henri Frédéric Amiel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedeʁik amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Biography [ edit ]
The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." (Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel: 6 million: 42 years: 1839–1881: 173 journals; 16,800 pages. [14] Ellsworth James: 5.9 million: 63 years: 1944–2007: Word count does not include first year (1944) which was handwritten. 1946-2007 manually typed. [15] John Gadd: 4 million: 45 years: 1975–2020: Started in 1947 [16] but kept consistently from 1975. [17 ...
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel ... English naturalist, essayist and short story writer; Mary Anne Barker ... (1759–1818), documented life in the Swedish royal court and ...
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De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
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