Agnes Repplier Quotes

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• He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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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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  Choices, Want, Trouble

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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  Love, Laughing, Said

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

  Agnes Repplier

  Blessed, Son, America

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• Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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  Teaching, Learning, Busy

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

  Agnes Repplier

  Adam, Conversation, Difficult

  "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

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• People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Understanding, Pins

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

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  Confused, Years, Age

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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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  Teacher, Profound, Choices

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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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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  Men, Hands, Desire

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

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  Laughter, Dust, Laughing

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.

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  Loss, Ill Health, Anxiety

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

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  Friendship, Always Trying, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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  Simple, Thinking, Personality

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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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  Past, Foolish, Subtle

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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.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dream, Appreciation, Thinking

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, World

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• There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

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  Truth, Naked, Nudity

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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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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  Kindness, Giving, Quality

  Agnes Repplier (1912). “Americans and Others”

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• The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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  Humor, Essence, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

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  Sunshine, Biblical, Years

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• There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

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  Fancy, Phrases, Virtue

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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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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  Knowledge, Knowing, Hands

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is a duty we owe to one another; it is our common debt to humanity.

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  Inspiration, Intelligent, Men

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