Charles Paul Simmons was an American editor and novelist. His first novel, Powdered Eggs, was awarded the William Faulkner Foundation Award for a notable first novel.
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The great business of the moral teacher is, to make the best moral impressions and excite the best feelings, by giving the clearest, fullest and most accurate instruction as to truth and duty.
—Charles Simmons
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
—Charles Simmons
When the heart is won, the undertanding is easily convinced.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Heart
The oblivions of time will be the reminiscences of eternity.
—Charles Simmons
I have heard many great orators, said Louis XIV to Massilon, and have been highly pleased with them; but whenever I hear you, I go away displeased with myself.—This is the highest encomium that could be bestowed on a preacher.
—Charles Simmons
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Future
Infidelity, is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head.—It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.
—Charles Simmons
Deny first-truths, and reasoning is void. If an opponent denies them, we can only add: “Be not as the horse and the mule, who have no understanding.”
—Charles Simmons
He who feasts every day, feasts no day.
—Charles Simmons
He who accustoms himself to buy superfluities, may be obliged, ere long, to sell his necessities.
—Charles Simmons
When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Self-Esteem
We are indebted to Christianity for gentleness, especially toward women.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Gentleness
Johnson well says, “He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.” Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Greatness, Trifles, One Step at a Time, Excellence
Blindness of heart beclouds the understanding, conscience, memory, and indeed all the intellectual powers, and throws a mischievous obscurity over theological, moral, and even classical science.
—Charles Simmons
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Health
Those who exaggerate in their statements belittle themselves.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Exaggeration
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Intelligence
Speech is the body; thought, the soul, and suitable action the life of eloquence.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Eloquence
Method facilitates every kind of business, and by making it easy makes it agreeable, and also successful.
—Charles Simmons
Reverence is the very first element of religion; it cannot but be felt by everyone who has right views of the divine greatness and holiness, and of his own character in the sight of God.
—Charles Simmons
If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Family, Mother
Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Fools
Immortality is the greatness of our being; the scene for attaining the fullness and perfection of our existence.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Immortality
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Punctuality, Usefullness
Imprint the beauties of authors upon your imagination, and their good morals upon your heart.
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Reading
Some act first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
—Charles Simmons
Those who reason only by analogies, rarely reason by logic, and are generally slaves to imagination.
—Charles Simmons
Dare not usurp thy maker’s place by giving way to wrath—wrath that goes forth in vengeance; “vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.”
—Charles Simmons
Topics: Revenge
To pamper the body is a miserable expression of kindness and courtesy; the most sumptuous repast is “the feast of reason and the flow of soul”—an intellectual and moral treat.
—Charles Simmons
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words.—If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
—Charles Simmons
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