Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
sorry reality achievement
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
laughter spring heartless
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
travel dining complaining
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
loyalty passionate-desire belief
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
asking favors way
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
essentials critics reader
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
men envy selfishness
Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
happiness people community
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.
teaching learning busy
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
men thinking giving
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.
uplifting country cities
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.
pain regret years
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
passion political wasps
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.