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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
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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Charleston
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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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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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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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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I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
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Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
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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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Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
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The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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