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Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.
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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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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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is love disguised, the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.
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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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A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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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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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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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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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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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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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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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 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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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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