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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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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There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
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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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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.
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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.
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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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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.
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Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.
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A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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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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