Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
laughter serious reason
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
laughter spring heart
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
people black criticism
People fed on sugared praises cannot be expected to feel an appetite for the black broth of honest criticism.
revenge forever reputation
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.
history favors may
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
elation currents conversation
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
peace struggle hands
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
temptation virtue
Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.
grief bears trouble
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
rough-edges giving ease
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.
take-time
Friendship takes time.