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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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

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

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

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

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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

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To note a deficiency is one thing, another to remedy that deficiency.

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

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

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

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Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

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It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

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The pen, in our age, weighs heavier in the social scale than the sword of a Norman Baron.

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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

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

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Life everywhere! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leaping, running.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

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

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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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The block of granite which was an obstacle on the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone on the pathway of the strong.

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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.

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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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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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