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

Anna Brownell Jameson

Work, Occupation, Paradise

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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.

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Art, Focus, One Deep

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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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Hate, Mean, Tree

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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.

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Art, Doors, Mind

Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.192

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

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Health, Principles, Sanitary

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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.

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Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is

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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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Profound, Mind, Phrases

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Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

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Passion, Character, Adversity

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Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

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Men, Rights, Hands

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

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Punishment, Voice, Feelings

Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.76, New Canadian Library

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

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Mind, Delight, Prey

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.80

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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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Art, Sight, Evil

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.282

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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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Memories, Blessed, World

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.31

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

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Change, Heart, Moss

Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.200, New Canadian Library

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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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Kings, Artist, Greatness

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.59

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

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Thinking, Self, Reason

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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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Echoes, Ignorant, Mind

"Memoirs and Essays, Washington Allston". As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 256-259, 1922.

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Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

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Sunshine, Two, Heaven

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.270

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It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

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Struggle, Men, Mind

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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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Lying, Character, Genius

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.59

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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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Strong, Fear, Hate

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.98

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Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

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Offering, Hands, Church

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There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

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Ties, Individuality, Brain

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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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Enemy, Mixtures, Hopeless

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.369

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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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Heart, Despair, Poverty

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Born: May 19, 1794
Died: March 17, 1860
Occupation: Writer
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