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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
William Gilmore Simms
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William Gilmore Simms
Age: 64 †
Born: 1806
Born: April 17
Died: 1870
Died: June 11
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South Carolina
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
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I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
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We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
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Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.
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Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.
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