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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
George Henry Lewes
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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
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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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Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
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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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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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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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The artist is called a creator.
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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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Ideas are forces our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
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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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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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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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