Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
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.
hate cat race
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
people literature letters
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
heart one-direction dear
The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
sunday knows
Necessity knows no Sunday.
laughter memories cheer
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
proof wit capable
Wit is a thing capable of proof.
play groups fairness
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
responsibility half asceticism
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
art facts doe
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
believe men grace
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
heart home house
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.