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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.
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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Charleston
South Carolina
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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 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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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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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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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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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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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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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
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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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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.
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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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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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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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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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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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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.
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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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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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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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