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The Optimist (1850)
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It has been often remarked that earnest men excel in humor, and we perceive how benign is the law which thus tempers elements of fearful intensity.
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Humor is doubtless intended as the safety-valve of concentrative minds, and its prevalence, in the English race, is owing to their reserve of character, which finds no vent through a mercurial temperament like the French and Italians.
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It is to be regretted we are so limited in costume. No word is more prevalent than becoming, and no idea more commonly violated. As regards the dress of our own sex, I do not remember to have met a single exception to the feeling of its almost entire deficiency, both in elegance and adaptation.
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One reason why the most famous portraits of the old masters, [...] are so life-like, and inspire so deep a sense of their authenticity, is doubtless that the originals were objects of affection, and familiar by constant association and sympathy, to the minds of the artists.
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Of Italy:
There they breathe a congenial atmosphere. Often subsisting upon the merest pittance, indulging in every vagary of costume, they
wander over the land and yield themselves freely to the spirit of adventure and the luxury of art.
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I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence.
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Tact is an essential principle of conversation; hence, the eastern metaphor which likens a word spoken in season, to "apples of gold in pictures of silver." The time and the society must regulate the subject.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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Born:
August 20, 1813
Died:
December 17, 1871
(aged 58)
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