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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
George Henry Lewes
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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
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London
England
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Delight
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Knowledge
Art
Truth
Uprightness
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Minister
Guidance
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Ideas are forces our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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The discoverer and the poet are inventors and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.
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To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
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Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
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In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.
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The artist is called a creator.
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If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
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Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
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The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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