From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.
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.
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.
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 …
No canvas absorbs colour like memory. - Robert Aris Willmott
No canvas absorbs colour like memory.
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. - Robert Aris Willmott
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. - Robert Aris Willmott
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.
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