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• We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Evil, Might, Waste

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• Some imitation is involuntary and unconscious.

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  Imitation, Involuntary, Unconscious

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.

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  Pride, Men, Flames

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• A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.

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  History, Dine, Reader

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.

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  Light, Different, Genius

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.6

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• It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

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  Mind, Movement, Firmness

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• Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

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  Education, Affliction, Remedy

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.295

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• The discovery of one star is the promise of another.

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  Stars, Science, Discovery

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

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  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.

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  Book, Giving, Size

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.119

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• Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health to the complexion of thought be resolved into its elements. Stop there. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.

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  Blood, Imagination, Giving

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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