A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.
Taste is improved by cultivation. - Robert Aris Willmott
Taste is improved by cultivation.
- Robert Aris Willmott
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. - Robert Aris Willmott
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.
It is the empiric who never fails. - Robert Aris Willmott
It is the empiric who never fails.
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. - Robert Aris Willmott
A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a … - Robert Aris Willmott
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a …
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. - Robert Aris Willmott
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. - Robert Aris Willmott
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. - Robert Aris Willmott
No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. - Robert Aris Willmott
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.
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