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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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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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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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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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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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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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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
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Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
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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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Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
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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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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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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 only true source of politeness is consideration.
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Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
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Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
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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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Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
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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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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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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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