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Quotes from Toward The Rising Sun — William Gayley Simpson

1892–1991 United States

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Again I must caution anyone who sets out to follow his deepest life against being too sure that it can be kept within the limits of conventional morality. Let him not take it for granted that men will think him a saint, or even consider him respectable.

Toward The Rising Sun (1935)

Many of our most capable people are spending their powers on trying to salvage human wreckage, on all sorts of life that can never come to anything, and not even on salvaging it, but only on preserving it, on merely keeping alive by artificial means that which ought to die, and which, if left to nature, would die.

Toward The Rising Sun (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Gayley Simpson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.