Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Giving

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  • What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293
  • We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.290
  • The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87
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