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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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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I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.
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Chill penury weighs down the heart itself and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
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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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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
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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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All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase profound cunning, has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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A good taste is often unconscious a just taste is always conscious.
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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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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.
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Modesty and chastity are twins
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In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
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