The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
AGNES REPPLIERThe impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.
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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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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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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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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes which fulfilled this one purpose and no other is a pleasant proof, if proof were needed, of the business principles which underlay the enlightened activity of publishers.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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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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The 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.
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Friendship takes time.
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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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
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