"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity,……" — George Henry Lewes
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
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George Henry Lewes
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55 Quotes by George Henry Lewes
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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 Antagonism Quotes
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to…
— Grace Paley
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is…
— Charles Tupper
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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation…
— Karl Marx
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which…
— Karl Marx
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