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William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity
  • Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19
  • Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.29
  • Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

William Gilmore Simms

  • Born: April 17, 1806
  • Died: June 11, 1870
  • Occupation: Poet
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