Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves … - Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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.

Against, Chill, Earnest, Enthusiasm, May, True

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

Action, Feelings, Fountain, Inspirational, Life, Reason

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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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.

Destiny, Errors, Facts, Poet, Relations, Virtue

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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