Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Epigrams

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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.43

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Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.75

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