Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes

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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.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Play

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164

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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

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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, Feelings, Action

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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, Sadness, Elements

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275

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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, Self, Heaven

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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• No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

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  Men, Flattery

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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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  Sweet, Travel, Interesting

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• The mind's only perfect vassal.

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  Perfect, Mind

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.148

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

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  Beauty, Soul, Stronger

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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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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  Retirement, Cheer, Character

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• Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Names

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1851). “Poems”, p.44

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• Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

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  Giving, Advice

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• The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

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  Reality, Men, He Man

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• A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

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  Travel, Refinement, Admirable

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.46

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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, Strong, Memories

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38

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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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  Flower, Childhood, Influence

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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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  Character, Vocabulary, Adjectives

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79

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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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  Stars, Character, Night

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.13

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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

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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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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• There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

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  Strength, Courage, Endurance

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.240

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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, Perfect, Doe

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.18

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• Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

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  Luxury, Age, Literature

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.104

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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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  Giving, Support, Brilliant

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.232

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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

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.61

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