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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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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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How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!
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As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.
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Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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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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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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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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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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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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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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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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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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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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 bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
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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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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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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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