Quotes
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman

"Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace."

-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Retirement Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Character Quotes

“It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.”
“Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.”
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.”

Source : Dorothea Lynde Dix (1843). “Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts [protesting Against the Confinement of Insane Persons and Idiots in Almshouses and Prisons]”, p.4
“The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help!”
“Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'”
“Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?”
“I use very few muscles at the best of times.”

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