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Modesty and chastity are twins
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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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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Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.
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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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A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
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As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
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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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The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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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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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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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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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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Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
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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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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
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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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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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