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Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: 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.

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.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Modesty and chastity are twins

Modesty and chastity are twins

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: 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.

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.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering.

Violet, the amethyst, signified love and truth; or passion and suffering.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

Anna Brownell Jameson quotes: A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.