Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
AGNES REPPLIEREdged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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