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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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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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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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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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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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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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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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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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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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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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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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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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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
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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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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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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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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
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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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Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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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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