Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms

Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.

Ambition

Eye

Home

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.

Action

Principles

Storm

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.

Clouds

Evil

Eye

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.

Eye

Pioneers

Wings

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Criticism

Fear

Genius

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

Believe

Economist

Humor

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?

Moon

Sailing

Sea

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Character

Criticism

Respect Me

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.

Music

Passion

Song

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.

Employment

Saint

World

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Angel

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Cheer

Children

Clouds

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Dog

Doubt

Economist

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Errors

Evil

Eye

Fear

Firsts

Flames

Genius

God

Hands

Home

Humor

Journey

Littles

Love

Men

Modesty

Moon

Mother

Music

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Passion

Pioneers

Policy

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Possession

Principles

Reason Why

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Saint

Sea

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Quotes by William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms

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.

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.

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.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

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?

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

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.

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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