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Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
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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Ideas are forces our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
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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 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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I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
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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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The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
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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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Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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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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Originality is independence, not rebellion it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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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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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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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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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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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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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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