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William Gilmore Simms Quotes
«Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents»
«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»
Author: William Gilmore Simms
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Genius
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Eye of, in advance, pioneer, Pioneering, pioneers, precedes, wing
«Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent»
«The only true source of politeness is consideration.»
Author: William Gilmore Simms
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politeness
«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.»
«No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them»
«He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.»
«The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air»
«Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine»
Author: William Gilmore Simms
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sweets