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Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.
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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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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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 cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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Talk without truth is the hollow brass talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.
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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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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
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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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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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