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Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatnessCortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington. — Edwin Percy Whipple
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
A man of letters is often a man with two natures,one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
