George Henry Lewes quote: "When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an en...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Insight is the first condition of Art.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The only cure for grief is action.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, ...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of a...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supp...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is cap...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightn...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Good writers are of necessity rare.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus org...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Sincerity is moral truth.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; ...
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the aboliti...
HENRY GEORGE

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call hi...
HENRY GEORGE

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or...
HENRY GEORGE

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the...
HENRY GEORGE

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of cri...
HENRY GEORGE

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is n...
HENRY GEORGE

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imaginatio...
HENRY GEORGE

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...
HENRY GEORGE

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the...
HENRY GEORGE

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
HENRY GEORGE

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
HENRY GEORGE

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...
HENRY GEORGE

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of la...
HENRY GEORGE

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her c...
HENRY GEORGE

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfi...
HENRY GEORGE

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--...
HENRY GEORGE

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is i...
HENRY GEORGE

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retr...
HENRY GEORGE

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortun...
HENRY GEORGE

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell eno...
HENRY GEORGE

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us ...
HENRY GEORGE

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...
HENRY GEORGE

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gra...
HENRY GEORGE

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
HENRY GEORGE

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
HENRY GEORGE

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over
HENRY GEORGE

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of ...
HENRY GEORGE

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into...
G. H. LEWES

The only cure for grief is action.
G. H. LEWES

Few there are that will endure a true friend.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN

Every dog is a lion at home.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN

The only cure for grief is action.
GEORGE HENRY LEWIS

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
GEORGE HENRY BORROW

The dog that trots about finds a bone.
GEORGE HENRY BORROW

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN

Whats the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag...
GEORGE HENRY POWELL

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit...
GEORGE ASAF (PSEUDONYM OF GEORGE HENRY POWELL)

...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and th...
DR HENRY GEORGE CHARLES CLARKE

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
HENRY CAVILL

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
HENRY SAMUELI

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentia...
HENRY GIROUX

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o...
HENRY ROLLINS

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. Th...
THIERRY HENRY

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD

After a storm comes a calm.
MATTHEW HENRY

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
HENRY ROLLINS

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and...
HENRY CLOUD

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down,...
HENRY ROLLINS

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, aw...
HENRY MILLER

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the ...
HENRY FORD

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY

The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY

Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY

If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in whi...
HENRY MILLER

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring...
HENRY VAUGHAN

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
HENRY FORD

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed ...
HENRY BESSEMER

Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many st...
HENRY WILLIAMSON

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a batt...
HENRY VILLARD

Today, most believers are segregated and isolated in their church or in their home. If believers acc...
HENRY HON

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
HENRY ADAMS

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I ...
HENRY SELICK

The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inext...
HENRY MILLER

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one w...
PATRICK HENRY

There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be freeif we mean to preserve inviolate those in...
PATRICK HENRY

Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our ...
PATRICK HENRY

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a pain...
PATRICK HENRY

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ...
PATRICK HENRY

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
HENRY VAUGHAN

All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individu...
HENRY BONILLA

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market disto...
HENRY PAULSON

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, becaus...
HENRY PETROSKI

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff...
HENRY CAVILL

When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days ...
HENRY ROLLINS

The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon ou...
HENRY ROLLINS

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligati...
HENRY PAULSON

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a di...
HENRY CISNEROS

Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that ma...
HENRY WADE

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with gree...
HENRY TIMROD

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good...
HENRY ROLLINS

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
HENRY ROLLINS

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
HENRY ROLLINS

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
HENRY ROLLINS

I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me...
HENRY GRUNWALD

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

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