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There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.
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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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 cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
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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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Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity the other the priestess.
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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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