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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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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Literary Critic
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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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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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 minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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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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The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.
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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 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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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
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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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Sincerity is moral truth.
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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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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
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If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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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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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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