Quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

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Lessons

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, “No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

Execution

Lessons

Weight

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.

Practice

Religious

Water

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.

Heart

Summer

Sunshine

As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

Paris

Spring

Years

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.

Spring

Summer

Taken

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Character

Men

Special

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.

Trying

Waste

Work

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Believe

Fields

Winning

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

Inspire

Lonely

People

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Baby

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Believe

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Brother

Cake

Character

Children

Country

Country Love

Creating

Death

Doe

Doors

Execution

Eye

Fall

Father

Fields

Flower

Genius

Grammar

Grass

Heart

Heaven

Heroic Deeds

Hiking

Home

Humor

Inspirational

Inspire

Instruction

Intelligence

Laughter

Leaves Of Grass

Lessons

Life Is

Lonely

Luxury

Masterpiece

Men

Mom

Mother

Nature

Noble

Ocean

Pairs

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Quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, “No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

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.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

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.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

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

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