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What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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