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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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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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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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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I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.
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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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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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The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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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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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.
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A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.
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In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.
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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
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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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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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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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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
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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.
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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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