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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.
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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Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.
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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.
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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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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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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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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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The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
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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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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
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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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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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The artist is called a creator.
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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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