Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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• When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

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• The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers… but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

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• There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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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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• 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.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson (7)

Birth:	22nd December, 1823
Death:	9th May, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Activist, Author, Soldier

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