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Thomas W. Higginson
American
Clergyman
About the author
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Eyes
#Originality
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 W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Words
#People
#Nothing
#Government
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Men
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
Thomas W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Winning
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 W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Newspapers
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Defense
#Sense
#Humor
#Fortune
When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson,
American
Clergyman
#Thought
#Grammar