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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
es in such trifles and led on by mere habit and by the love of victory. For himself, he was only working for means of retiring from it. It was striking to hear the considerations, which prevented my becoming a lawyer seventeen years before, now urged with such enthusiasm by the most successful lawyer among my compeers. It made me very grateful that I had not so wasted my life. To George William Curtis, whose position in regard to slavery made some of his friends anxious, he wrote, January 23, 1857: Do you remember, on your last visit to Worcester, that I said that there was but one thing wanting to your position — that you should become an abolitionist? I rejoiced in your brave action and fine speeches. But anti-slavery has to you been a summer sea, and you riding nobly on the advancing waves. What is to be your future? We do not ask you to join us, till time be ripe. Make Sumner your star, till time has taught you to see the greater greatness of Phillips. ... Rememb