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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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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A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
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I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.
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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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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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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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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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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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