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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

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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
Writer
London
England
Delivers
Tidy
Literature
Within
Without
World
Tidings

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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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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
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The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
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The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.
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Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
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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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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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Sincerity is moral truth.
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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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Good writers are of necessity rare.
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To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
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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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A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.
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