Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to…
• The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is…
• There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it…
• Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
• Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the…
• Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
• A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was…
• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to…
• The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.
• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
• National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.
• Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
• Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.
• If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or…

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