William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Inspirational, Gunpowder, Answers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

• The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Air, Gunpowder, Answers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.15

• We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Weather, Wish, Encounters

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.41

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