There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
AGNES REPPLIERIn the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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the tea-hour is the hour of peace … strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle – a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.
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Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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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.
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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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Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.
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There 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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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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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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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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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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