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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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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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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
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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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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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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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No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
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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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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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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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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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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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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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Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
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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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Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
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