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Education is the apprenticeship of life (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
To study history is to study literature (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind’s merchandise (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer’s. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
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 prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
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 of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
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 empty (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Taste is improved by cultivation (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
It is the empiric who never fails (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Humor is the pensiveness of wit (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
The drama is the book of the people (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Genius is nourished from within and without (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
The discovery of one star is the promise of another (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
No canvas absorbs colour like memory (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port (Robert Aris Willmott Quotes)
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