Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things. Agnes Repplier More Quotes by Agnes Repplier More Quotes From Agnes Repplier The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier diseaselittlespast A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble. Agnes Repplier grieftroublebears Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence. Agnes Repplier stepsattentionway It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother. Agnes Repplier brothereducationchildren There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. Agnes Repplier jokesworld 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. Agnes Repplier failurejudgementmay People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism. Agnes Repplier blackcriticismpeople A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example. Agnes Repplier constructionexampleyears Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier virtuetemptation 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. Agnes Repplier fusionrough-edgesgiving Friendship takes time. Agnes Repplier take-time We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle. Agnes Repplier ubuntustrugglepeace Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. Agnes Repplier sarcasticattitudepositive The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion. Agnes Repplier sobrietytreefall the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them. Agnes Repplier booklyinglooks Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. Agnes Repplier reputationrevengeforever We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier scalesheightmoral Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. Agnes Repplier witqualityinfinite We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity. Agnes Repplier tolerancelawtravel The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think. Agnes Repplier childrentravelthinking
