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Science is not addressed to poets.

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
Writer
London
England
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Science

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Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
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Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
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Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.
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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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To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
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No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.
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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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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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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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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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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
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To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.
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It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
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Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
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