To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
AGNES REPPLIERBelievers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring – or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps – lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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