It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
AGNES REPPLIERThe great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
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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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While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.
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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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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 is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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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 delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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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 pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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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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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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