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All...religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |

Unfortunately, extrapolations from animal results to man remains largely problematic and no amount of mathematical sophistication can render such extrapolation more certain. .

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Higginson and Muir |

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ella Higginson |

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Higginson |