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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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Art
Vision
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
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Literature
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
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Man
May
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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Progress
Cause
Effect
Literature
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Art
Imagination
Philosophy
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
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End
Philosophy
Principles
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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Independence
Originality
Rebellion
Sincerity
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
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Proof
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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Beauty
Genius
Growth
Spring
Years
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
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Superiority
Mind
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
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Public
The only cure for grief is action.
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Action
Cure
Grief
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
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Literature
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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Success
May
Self
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
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Sincerity