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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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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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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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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
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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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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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