Agnes Repplier Quotes, Church Quotes, Sides Quotes

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

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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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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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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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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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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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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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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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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

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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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Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

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There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

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to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

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