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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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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Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.
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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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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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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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Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.
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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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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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A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.
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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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A good taste is often unconscious a just taste is always conscious.
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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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Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
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Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
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Talk without truth is the hollow brass talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.
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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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Modesty and chastity are twins
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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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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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