"Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library." — George Henry Lewes
"Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library."
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George Henry Lewes
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55 Quotes by George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes has 55 quotes on this site.
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Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
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No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in…
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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there…
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
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Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
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More Circulating Quotes
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one of 46 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It…
— Deepak Chopra
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but…
— Irving Fisher
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George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to…
— Dale Carnegie
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for…
— Patti Smith
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The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your…
— George W. Bush
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I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The…
— Mel Brooks
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Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we…
— Herman Wouk
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Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in…
— Robert J. Shiller
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