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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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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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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.
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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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Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
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Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.
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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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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
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A good taste is often unconscious a just taste is always conscious.
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Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.
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the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses genius combines and creates.
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Chill penury weighs down the heart itself and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
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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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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth never.
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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 have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.
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