The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. - Edwin Percy Whipple

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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.

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About Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was a literary critic and essayist from Massachusetts.

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Alternative Names: Edwin P. Whipple
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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.

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