To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
AGNES REPPLIERLike simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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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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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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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
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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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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.
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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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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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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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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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