William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Eyes

• Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Wings, Pioneers

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.75

• Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Philosophy, Eye, Soul

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.27

• La ambición es con frecuencia el único refugio que la vida ha dejado a los afectos negados o mortificados. Nos burlamos del ojo avaro, del ala atrevida, del alma que parece tener sed sólo de soberanía, y no sabemos que el vuelo de esta ave ambiciosa ha sido de un seno o de un hogar lleno de cenizas.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Eye, Home, Ambition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.74

• 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

  Eye, Clouds, Evil

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.80

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