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George Henry Lewes: '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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George Henry Lewes: 'Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'All great authors are seers.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.'

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George Henry Lewes: 'Good writers are of necessity rare.'

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Elizabeth I: 'It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.'

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Elizabeth I: 'Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.'

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Elizabeth I: 'I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.'

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Elizabeth I: 'Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.'

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Elizabeth I: 'I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!'

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Elizabeth I: 'If we still advise we shall never do.'

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Elizabeth I: 'I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.'

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Elizabeth I: 'Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.'

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Elizabeth I: 'Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.'

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Elizabeth I: 'The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.'

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