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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
— Thomas W. Higginson
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
— Thomas W. Higginson
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
— Woodrow Wilson
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
— Thomas W. Higginson
Music careerists from Seattle would typically move to the closest media center, which was L.A.
— Bruce Pavitt
All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
— Solange Knowles
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Life is as inexorable as the sea.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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
The man still fighting last week's battle will always lose to the man already fighting tomorrow's,
— Brian Staveley
There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.
— Robert Kazinsky
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
— Thomas W. Higginson
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
— Thomas W. Higginson
I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.
— Karl Lagerfeld
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson