Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
AGNES REPPLIERBelievers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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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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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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Art… does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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