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.
AGNES REPPLIERNow 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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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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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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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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
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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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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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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
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