"A man who listens because he has nothing……" — Agnes Repplier
"A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas."
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72 Quotes by Agnes Repplier
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our…
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Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with…
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we…
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore…
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with…
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy…
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for…
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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
— Jeremy Northam
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from…
— Victor Pelevin
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself…
— Gerhard Tersteegen
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The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are…
— Maria Montessori
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I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to…
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