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Of the three prerequisites of genius the first is soul the second is soul and the third is soul.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Edwin Percy Whipple
Age: 67 †
Born: 1819
Born: March 8
Died: 1886
Died: June 16
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Gloucester
Massachusetts
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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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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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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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Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
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Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.
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God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
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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 universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or caves in.
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Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
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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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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
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