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But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.
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Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
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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.
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Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.
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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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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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William Gilmore Simms
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Born:
April 17, 1806
Died:
June 11, 1870
(aged 64)
Bio:
William Gilmore Simms was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced.
Known for:
The Yemassee (1835)
The Cassique of Kiawah: A Colonial Romance (1859)
The Life of Francis Marion (1840)
Richard Hurdis, a tale of Alabama (1855)
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