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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
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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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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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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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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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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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
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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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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
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