One of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.. American physician poet professor lecturer and author
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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. Go to Quote / Comment
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Go to Quote / Comment
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment. Go to Quote / Comment
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Go to Quote / Comment
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Go to Quote / Comment