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William Gilmore Simms Quotes
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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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The dread of criticism is the death of genius (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The only true source of politeness is consideration (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The proverb answers where the sermon fails (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Neither praise or 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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities. We gain only as we give. There is no beggar so destitute as he who can afford nothing to his neighbor (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities and virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at expense of any of the virtues. He seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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 (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent (William Gilmore Simms Quotes)
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