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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Agnes Repplier
Wise, Fate, Brave
Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier
Humor, Fate, Effort
Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier
Pain, Fate, Men

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