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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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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 bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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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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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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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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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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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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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