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> [History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/history-presents-the-pleasantest-features-of-poetry-and-fiction-the/)

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## More by Robert Aris Willmott

> [In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/in-literature-and-art-memory-is-a-synonym-for-invention-it-is-the/)

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> [Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/poetical-taste-is-the-only-magician-whose-wand-is-not-broken-no-hand/)

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> [Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/genius-finds-its-own-road-and-carries-its-own-lamp/)

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> [A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/a-first-book-has-some-of-the-sweetness-of-a-first-love/)

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> [The discovery of one star is the promise of another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-discovery-of-one-star-is-the-promise-of-another/)

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> [Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/some-gifted-adventurer-is-always-sailing-round-the-world-of-art-and/)

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> [Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/taste-is-not-stationary-it-grows-every-day-and-is-improved-by/)

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> [The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-gloomy-recess-of-an-ecclesiastical-library-is-like-a-harbor-into/)

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> [Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/romance-is-the-truth-of-imagination-and-boyhood-homer-s-horses-clear/)

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> [The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-advice-of-a-scholar-whose-piles-of-learning-were-set-on-fire-by/)

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> [The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-drama-embraces-and-applies-all-the-beauties-and-decorations-of/)

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> [From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/from-numberless-books-the-fluttering-reader-idle-and-inconstant-bears/)

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> [The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-history-of-men-of-science-has-one-peculiar-advantage-as-it-shows/)

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> [Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/whatever-is-pure-is-also-simple-it-does-not-keep-the-eye-on-itself/)

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> [Humor is the pensiveness of wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/humor-is-the-pensiveness-of-wit/)

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