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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
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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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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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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
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Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.
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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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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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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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