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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. — George Henry Lewes

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved. — George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. — George Henry Lewes

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure. — George Henry Lewes

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed. — George Henry Lewes

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. — George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is moral truth. — George Henry Lewes

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity. — George Henry Lewes

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. — George Henry Lewes

Vehemence without feeling is but rant. — George Henry Lewes

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers. — George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. — George Henry Lewes

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. — George Henry Lewes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. — George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets. — George Henry Lewes

We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving. — George Henry Lewes

Love is blind; couch not his eyes. — George Henry Lewes

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others. — George Henry Lewes

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. — George Henry Lewes

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. — George Henry Lewes

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience. — George Henry Lewes

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. — George Henry Lewes

Good writers are of necessity rare. — George Henry Lewes

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. — George Henry Lewes

Insight is the first condition of Art. — George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. — George Henry Lewes

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. — George Henry Lewes

The air is crowded with birds
beautiful, tender, intelligent birds
to whom life is a song. — George Henry Lewes

All great authors are seers. — George Henry Lewes

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. — George Henry Lewes

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. — George Henry Lewes

Pliny ... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed. — George Henry Lewes

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. — George Henry Lewes

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic — George Henry Lewes

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. — George Henry Lewes

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom. — George Henry Lewes

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it. — George Henry Lewes

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. — George Henry Lewes

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes

The artist is called a creator ... — George Henry Lewes

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. — George Henry Lewes

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large". — George Henry Lewes

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine. — George Henry Lewes

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

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — George Henry Lewes

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. — George Henry Lewes

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. — George Henry Lewes

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. — George Henry Lewes

All good Literature rests primarily on insight. — George Henry Lewes

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. — George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. — George Henry Lewes

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

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. — George Henry Lewes

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. — George Henry Lewes

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. — George Henry Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes