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" All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. "
Seeing
May
Literature
" All good Literature rests primarily on insight. "
Primarily
Good
Insight
" All great authors are seers. "
Great
Authors
" A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. "
Accomplished
Poet
May
" As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. "
Look
Minds
Things
" Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. "
Books
Become
Exquisite
" Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. "
Books
Guidance
Knowledge
" 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. "
Style
Thought
Beauty
" Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. "
Processes
Own
Give
" Good writers are of necessity rare. "
Writers
Good
Necessity
" If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. "
Yourself
Argument
Feel
" Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. "
Degrees
Artists
Imagination
" In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. "
Much
Speech
Capable
" In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. "
Complex
Indispensable
Signs
" Insight is the first condition of Art. "
Insight
Condition
Art
" Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. "
Sincerity
Weakness
Strength
" It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. "
Succeed
View
Art
" Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. "
Through
Use
Us
" Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. "
Without
World
Literature
" Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. "
Literature
Progress
Social
" Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. "
Spring
Beauty
Genius
" Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. "
Families
Talent
Seems
" No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. "
Eloquent
Trying
Only
" Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. "
Wonder
Live
Learn
" Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. "
Rebellion
Sincerity
Independence
" Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature. "
Real
Experience
Literature
" Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. "
Art
Philosophy
Invisible
" Science is not addressed to poets. "
Science
Poets
" Science is the systematic classification of experience. "
Experience
Science
Classification
" Sincerity is moral truth. "
Moral
Sincerity
Truth
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