Charles Simmons Quotes

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• Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
• Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs…
• Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
• Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
• Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
• A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
• Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
• True greatness consists in being great in little things.
• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little…
• Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.
• If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
• No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
• Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and…
• Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
• Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know…
• Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
• It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
• For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different…
• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

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