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• A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

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  Fall, Reading, Fever

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

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• Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.

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  Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Book

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

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• Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

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  Fiction, May, Honest

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• The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction.

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  Ignorance, White, Church

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.121

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

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  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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• 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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