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Edwin Percy Whipple
Age: 67 †
Born: 1819
Born: March 8
Died: 1886
Died: June 16
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
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Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
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There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
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A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
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Pretension is nothing power is everything.
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The minister's brain is often the poor-box of the church.
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning it judges, but it is not judgment imagines, but it is not imagination it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
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Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.
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The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.
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