Agnes Repplier Quotes, Uplifting Quotes, Country Quotes

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

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In 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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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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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Economics and ethics have little in common.

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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

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Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

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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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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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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

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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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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

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We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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