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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.
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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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
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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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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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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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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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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
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