But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share
