Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Noble discontent is the path to heaven. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you… - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you…
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
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 … - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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 …
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year! - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
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