We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
AGNES REPPLIERThere is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
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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 universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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