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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.
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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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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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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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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The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.
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It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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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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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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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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The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
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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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The artist is called a creator.
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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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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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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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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 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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