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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
— William Gilmore Simms
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
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
— William Gilmore Simms
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
— William Gilmore Simms
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
— William Gilmore Simms
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
— William Gilmore Simms
Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.
— William Gilmore Simms
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
— William Gilmore Simms
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
I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.
— David Duffield
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.
— William Gilmore Simms
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
— William Gilmore Simms
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
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
Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.
— William Gilmore Simms
No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
— William Gilmore Simms
And, dude, the truth is, if you're gonna be like this, I don't need the association.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
Philosophy has its bugbears, as well as superstition.
— William Gilmore Simms
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
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.
— William Gilmore Simms
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
— William Gilmore Simms
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
— William Gilmore Simms
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
— William Gilmore Simms
It seems so odd to me, an odysseyHow honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing. — Asher Roth
Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
— William Gilmore Simms
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
— William Gilmore Simms
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
— William Gilmore Simms
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
Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.
— Lester B. Pearson
