Agnes Repplier Quotes, Youth Quotes, Tenacity Quotes

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

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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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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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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

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

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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

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Friendship takes time.

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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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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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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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By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

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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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