Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

• The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Flower, Years, Sea

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.59, Reprint Services Corporation

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• To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

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  Country, Home, Country Love

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1880). “Short Studies of American Authors”

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• How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

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  Winter, Years, Lessons

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.239

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• The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Intelligence, Doe, Use

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• No es ningún descrédito para Walt Whitman que escribiera Hojas de hierba, sólo que no la quemara después.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Leaves Of Grass, Grass, Walt

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.44

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• Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

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  Inspirational, Heaven, Noble

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

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  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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  Eye, Creating, Pairs

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• Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

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  Work, Trying, Waste

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.84

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• All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Religious, Practice, Water

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1872). “The Sympathy of Religions; an Address Delivered ... February 6, 1870”, p.18

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• Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

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  Believe, Winning, Fields

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.68

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• But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Spring, Taken

  "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

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  Reading, Cake, Soul

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1854). “Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix”, p.7

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• What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

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  Mother, Baby, Instruction

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

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• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.

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  Summer, Men, Weather

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.55, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

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  Baby, Nature, Children

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

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• Life is as inexorable as the sea.

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  Sea, Water, Life Is

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1900). “Studies in romance”

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• The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Taken, Writing, Roots

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1885). “Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.289, Ardent Media

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• No hay días en todo el año más deliciosos que los que a menudo nos llegan en la segunda quincena de abril... El sol tiembla en sus suaves rayos... La hierba del prado parece haber reverdecido desde ayer.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Spring, Flower, Years

  "In a Fair Country".

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• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

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  Children, Solitude, Quality

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

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• In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

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  Home, Doors, Wheels

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition

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• El carácter se muestra aparte del genio como algo especial. El primer punto de medida de cualquier hombre es el de la calidad.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Character, Men, Special

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• An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

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  Summer, Heart, Sunshine

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1889). “The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations”

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• ¿Qué son las Madonas de Rafael sino la sombra del amor de una madre, fijada en un contorno permanente para siempre?

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mamá, Madre, Hijo

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• Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Lonely, People, Inspire

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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