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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
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Ideas are forces our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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Sincerity is moral truth.
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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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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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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 one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
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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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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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Science is not addressed to poets.
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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
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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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Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
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In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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Originality is independence, not rebellion it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.
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