It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIERIt is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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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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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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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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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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We 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.
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This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.
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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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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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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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