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.
AGNES REPPLIERThe 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.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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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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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Friendship takes time.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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