Agnes Repplier - Mind Quotes

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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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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.

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When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

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It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic.... [but] we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth.

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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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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

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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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