Quotes by Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Page 1

The mind's only perfect vassal.
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Mind
Perfect
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Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.
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Poetry
Poetry Is
Soul
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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
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Men
Flattery
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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.
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Enthusiasm
Genius
Nursery
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Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.
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Sympathy
Heart
Names
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Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.
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Age
Literature
Luxury
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The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.
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Men
He Man
Reality
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The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
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Beauty
Reason
Soul
Stronger
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A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
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Travel
Admirable
Refinement
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Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.
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Advice
Giving
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Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
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Efficiency
Fashion
Grace
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Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.
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Character
Truthful
Weakness
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Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
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Inspirational
Action
Feelings
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The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
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Complexion
Frailty
Significant
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To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
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Earnest
Impress
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There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
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Courage
Strength
Endurance
Quiet
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Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.
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Travel
Memories
Strong
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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 created.
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Art
Smile
Doe
Perfect
Process
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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.
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Companion
Demand
Vocation
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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 attempt to fully understand.
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Beauty
Music
Flower
Garden
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It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.
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Adjectives
Character
Vocabulary
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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 latent force of character.
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Character
Heaven
Self
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There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.
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Beauty
Delight
Elements
Sadness
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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 subject of labor.
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Society
Leisure
Wealth
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Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.
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Chill
Enthusiasm
May
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There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
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Brilliant
Giving
Support
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Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.
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Music
Imagination
Doe
Sculpture
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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 seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.
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Art
Journey
Men
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There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.
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Character
Night
Stars
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To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.
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Travel
Interesting
Sweet
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To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.
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Heart
Nice
Voice
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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 artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.
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Art
Literature
Sculpture
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There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.
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Childhood
Flower
Influence
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Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.
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Memories
Might
Privilege
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Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.
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Destiny
Errors
Facts
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As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.
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Heart
Humble
Views
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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 the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.
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Eye
Mirrors
Play
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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.
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Circles
Hints
Winning
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Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.
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Character
Cheer
Retirement
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