It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIERThe clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
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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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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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