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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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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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