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• If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such views; yet it is certain that even those who most fiercely oppose me will recognize the power of my voice if it is not a mere echo; and the very novelty will challenge attention, and at last gain adherents if my views have any real insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Philosophy, Views

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• Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

  George Henry Lewes

  Safe, Immortality, Streams

  "On Actors and the Art of Acting". Book by George Henry Lewes, p. 60, 1875.

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• Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

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  Running, Talent, Murder

  'The Physiology of Common Life' (1859) ch. 12

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• If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.

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  Running, Art, Believe

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• A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

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  Men, May, Poet

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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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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  Regret, Veils, Inquiry

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe ...”, p.317

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• To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

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  Writing, Desire, Done

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.89, London, Knight

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• Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

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  Statements

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.15, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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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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  Amplification, Wealth, Rhetorical

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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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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  Love Is, Soul, Delight

  George Henry Lewes (2011). “The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries from Published and Unpublished Sources”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

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  Art, Science, Purpose

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.

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  Philosophy, Finals, Causes

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.86, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• If the members of a class do not understand -- if those directly addressed fail to listen, or listening, fail to recognize a power in the voice -- surely the fault lies with the speaker, who, having attempted to secure their attention and enlighten their understandings, has failed in the attempt.

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  Lying, Class, Voice

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

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  Mean, Self, Intellectual

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

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  Men, Trying, Eloquent

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

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  Hygiene, Literature, Objects

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

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  Race, Style, Gains

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

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  Effort, Adequate, May

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “The Life of Goethe”, p.466

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• There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

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  Silence, Insincerity, Justification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

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  Sympathy, Men, Brave

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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• The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

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  Character, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Rose, Blanche, and Violet". Book by George Henry Lewes, Volume 1, p. 8-9, 1848.

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• The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

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  Race, Individual

  George Henry Lewes (1875). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.135

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• Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

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  Literature, World, Tidy

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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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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  Art, Views, Doe

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

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  Writing, Science, Library

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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