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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.
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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All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase profound cunning, has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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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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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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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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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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