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The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political

The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Party, Passion, Heart
Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Character, Heart, Men
Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Eye, Heart, Reality
Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.199

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Heart, Eye, House
Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Heart, Wrath, Intuition

A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Memories, Spring, Heart
Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.40

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.

Edwin Percy Whipple
Heart, Wine, Men

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