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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Age: 66 †
Born: 1794
Born: January 1
Died: 1860
Died: January 1
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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
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In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.
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Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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