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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
Historian
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Novelist
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Charleston
South Carolina
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The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
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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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Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.
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It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.
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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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Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
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The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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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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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
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There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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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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