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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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Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity the other the priestess.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.
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I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
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How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
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I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.
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To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.
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A good taste is often unconscious a just taste is always conscious.
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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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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
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The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
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