Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

William Gilmore Simms's Popular Quotes

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 …

- William Gilmore Simms

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

- William Gilmore Simms

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

- 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

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

- 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

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilit…

- William Gilmore Simms

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

- William Gilmore Simms

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

- William Gilmore Simms