Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
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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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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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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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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.
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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
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Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
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