Aim Quote by William Gilmore Simms

“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.”

William Gilmore Simms

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Aim Blindness Clouds Defeat Evil Eye Inseparable Malice Poisonous Rattlesnakes Reptiles Terrible Venom World

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