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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.
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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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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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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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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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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The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.
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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 proverb answers where the sermon fails.
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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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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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Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
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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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There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.
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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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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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Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.
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