Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word ‘million’ is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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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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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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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?
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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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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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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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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