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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American author, editor, and social activist known for his advocacy of women's rights, abolitionism, and socialism. His works spanned poetry, novels, essays, and criticism, with his most famous work being the autobiographical novel 'My Life and Times'. Higginson's writing style was influenced by both Romanticism and Realism.

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

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Book:Atlantic Essays

Source: Atlantic Essays

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

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Book:Short Studies of American Authors

Source: Short Studies of American Authors

“In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.”

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

About the Author

Born: December 22, 1823
Died: May 9, 1911
Known for: Author
Quotes: 38

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