But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
AGNES REPPLIERWe are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.
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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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