"To be really cosmopolitan a man must be……" — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country."
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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29 Quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson has 29 quotes on this site.
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both…
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes....
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Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
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After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it…
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Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your…
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All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the…
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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
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If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should…
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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…
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More Cosmopolitan Quotes
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I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is…
— Bjork
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The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition…
— Jurgen Habermas
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
— Tycho Brahe
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If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and…
— Kenny Smith
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I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination…
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I got a journalism degree. I started doing journalism - I interned at 'Cosmopolitan' magazine in the 1970s, which probably…
— Anne M. Mulcahy
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I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.
— Michael Urie
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My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn…
— Sylvia Day
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I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
— Rick Allen
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