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The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
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.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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