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Henry Theodore Tuckerman (April 20, 1813 – December 17, 1871) was an American writer, essayist and critic.

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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.

Companion, Demand, Full, Inveterate, Vocation

The mind's only perfect vassal.

Mind, Perfect, Vassal

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Overflowing, Poetry, Poetry Is, Soul

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.

Character, Closed, Life, Night, Solitude, Stars

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.

Analyze, Beauty, Dissecting, Flower, Music, Understand

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

Buys, Complexion, Frailty, Sell, Significant, Woman

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.

Doe, Eve, Imagination, Like, Music, Suggestive

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.

Awakens, Beauty, Elements, Sadness, True

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

Reality, Men, He Man, Critic, Becomes, Ceases

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.

Giving, Support, Brilliant, Inexperienced, Absolute

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.

Art, Doe, Perfect, Spectator, Work

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.

Calling, Memories, Might, Passages, Pleasing, Pleasure

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.

Circles, Crafts, Demands, Inveterate, Turn, Winning

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

Beauty, Instinct, Reason, Soul, Stronger, Truth

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.

Acquire, Leisure, Motive, Society, Subject, Wealth

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

Flatters, Flattery, Loves, Man, Men, Woman

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Action, Feelings, Fountain, Inspirational, Life, Reason

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.

Adjectives, Amusing, Character, Habitually, Vocabulary

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.

Childhood, Flower, Flowers, Influence, Mood, Prophecy

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.

Atone, Interesting, Philosopher, Sweet, Travel

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