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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
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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Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity the other the priestess.
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You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.
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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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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.
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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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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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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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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... 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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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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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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
Anna Brownell Jameson
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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