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Top 30 Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”

1. “Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

2. “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes...”

3. “Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes...”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Life is as inexorable as the sea.”

4. “Life is as inexorable as the sea.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.”

5. “Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Noble discontent is the path to heaven.”

6. “Noble discontent is the path to heaven.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.”

7. “Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “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 cannot vindicate it.”

8. “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 cannot vindicate it.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.”

9. “It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.”

10. “After all, when a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer’s sunshine, winter’s snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow...”

11. “An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer’s sunshine, winter’s snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow...”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “There may be phrases which shall be palaces to dwell in, treasure-houses to explore; a single word may be a window from which one may perceive all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them. Oftentimes a word shall speak what accumulated volumes have labored in vain to utter: there may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence.”

13. “There may be phrases which shall be palaces to dwell in, treasure-houses to explore; a single word may be a window from which one may perceive all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them. Oftentimes a word shall speak what accumulated volumes have labored in vain to utter: there may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.”

14. “Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.”

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

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”

16. “What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever?”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.”

17. “If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.”

18. “To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.”

19. “The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

20. “In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.”

21. “The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.”

22. “Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby’s birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.”

23. “The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby’s birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.”

24. “Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.”

25. “Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “What instruction the baby brings to the mother!”

26. “What instruction the baby brings to the mother!”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls, – a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one’s children rich.”

28. “How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls, – a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one’s children rich.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.”

29. “That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.”

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quote: “In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.”

30. “In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.”

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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