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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.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Age: 58 †
Born: 1813
Born: April 20
Died: 1871
Died: December 17
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Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.
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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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Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
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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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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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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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The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.
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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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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.
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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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Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.
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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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A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
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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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To impress others we must be earnest to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
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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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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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