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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.
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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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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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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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 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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