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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.
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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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 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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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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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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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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whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.
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In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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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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Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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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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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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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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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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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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
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