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George Henry Lewes

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


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.


— George Henry Lewes


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Insight is the first condition of Art.


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.


— George Henry Lewes


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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.


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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


— George Henry Lewes


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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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