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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.

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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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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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
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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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What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
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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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Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
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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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Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
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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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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius the first is soul the second is soul and the third is soul.
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What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.
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We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
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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 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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