"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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Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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“Specialize in your particular field and try to know more about it than anyone else.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....”
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . â€â€”Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clearâ€”â€œ. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.”
“We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?”
“I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.”
“Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.”
“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”
“Retail is selling things that don't come back to customers who do.”

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