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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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Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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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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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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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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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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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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Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace -- the many inquiries -- the fond regrets and thrilling hopes -- it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
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Originality is independence, not rebellion it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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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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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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To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
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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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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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Sincerity is moral truth.
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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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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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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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