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Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds. — George Henry Boker

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

England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free. — George Augustus Henry Sala

There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman. — George Henry Borrow

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge. — Henry George

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. — Henry George

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 state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George

An inch in a man's nose is much. — Henry George Bohn

Sincerity is moral truth. — George Henry Lewes

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free. — Henry George

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

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 must walk before we run. — George Henry Borrow

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general. — Henry George Bohn

Private Perkins is a funny little codger. — George Henry Powell

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. — Alfred Russel Wallace

A young trooper should have an old horse. — Henry George Bohn

He who knows himself best esteems himself least. — Henry George Bohn

Society is the master, and man is the servant. — George Augustus Henry Sala

Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something! — George Bernard Shaw

The investment of money is a banker's business. — George Garr Henry

Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie. — George Augustus Henry Sala

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values. — Henry George

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

Good luck reaches farther than long arms. — Henry George Bohn

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. — Henry George

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. — Henry George

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. — Henry George

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not. — Henry George

Every dog is a lion at home. — Henry George Bohn

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. — Henry George

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George

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

Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting — George Hamilton

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

And smile, smile, smile. — George Henry Powell

Every potter praises his own pot. — Henry George Bohn

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

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight. — Henry George Bohn

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

Everybody works but the vacant lot — Henry George

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell. — Henry George Bohn

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

He who has good health is young. — Henry George Bohn

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

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. — Henry George

The people must think because the people alone can act. — Henry George

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

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George

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

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. — 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

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

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George

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

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

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

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right. — Henry George Bohn

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

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

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

I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace. — Cecil B. DeMille

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

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. — Henry George

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

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. — Henry George Bohn

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. — Henry George Bohn

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

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

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man. — Henry George

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. — George Henry Borrow

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it. — Henry George Bohn

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

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

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature. — George Henry Lewis

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians. — Henry George Bohn

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

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. — 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 intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards. — George Augustus Henry Sala

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. — Henry George

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

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. — Henry George Bohn