William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Soul

• The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!

  William Gilmore Simms

  Children, Angel, Journey

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

• 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

• The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Birthday, Children, Soul

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

• It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Music, Song, Passion

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.22

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