Agnes Repplier on abundant
Agnes Repplier182 quotes“Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.”
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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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