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George Henry Lewes

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


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.


— George Henry Lewes


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All great authors are seers.


— George Henry Lewes


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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.


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.


— George Henry Lewes


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Good writers are of necessity rare.


— George Henry Lewes


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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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Biology would help explain mental functions such as feeling and thinking it would not help us to understand differences of mental faculty in different races and stages of human development. In 1845–46 Lewes publiGeorge Henry Lewesd The Biographical History of Philosophy an attempt to depict the life of philosophers as an ever-renewed fruitless labour to attain the unattainable. However he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship although they were never married.

He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism positivism and religious scepticism. However he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship although they were never married.

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