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

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Stars, Science, Discovery

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

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• It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Mind, Movement, Firmness

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• Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.

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  Horse, Children, Fall

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.60

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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

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  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind's morbid anatomy, and ought to be accurately labelled. Voltaire will still be a wit, notwithstanding he is a scoffer; and we may admire the brilliant spots and eyes of the viper, if we acknowledge its venom and call it a reptile.

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  Book, Eye, Men

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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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• What philosopher of the schoolroom, with the mental dowry of four summers, ever questions the power of the wand that opened the dark eyes of the beautiful princess, or subtracts a single inch from the stride of seven leagues?

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  Beautiful, Summer, Princess

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

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