the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
AGNES REPPLIERWe have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
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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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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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