Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

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• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved…
• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.
• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times…
• The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and…
• Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity…
• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not…
• Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
• Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts…
• Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is…
• A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
• As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot…
• The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and…
• An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
• A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.
• Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
• Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
• Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
• Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many,…

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