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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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Trust in my affection for you. Tho' I may not display it exactly in the way you like and expect it, it is not therefore less deep and sincere.
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The reality has displaced from my mind an illusion much more magnificent than itself.... I am metamorphosed; I am translated; I am an ass's head, a clod, a wooden spoon, a fat weed growing on Lethe's brink, a stock, a stone, a petrifaction. For have I not seen Niagara, the wonder of wonders, and felt — no words can tell what — disappointment?
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.
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I could almost wish myself a dormouse or a she-bear, to sleep away the rest of this cold, cold winter.
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In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.
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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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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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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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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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I confess to you, dear Ottilie, that I do not like the idea of going to you with my health so broken as it is now. You are also an invalid. Must we lie on two sofas and look at each other? — tho' this would be better than nothing, and better than to be separated for more years, till life ebbs away and leaves our best hopes stranded like wrecks on the shore.
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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all...
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It seems to me that we can find a similitude for everything else, but Venice is like nothing else — Venice the beautiful, the wonderful!
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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.
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As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.
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Anna Brownell Jameson
Born:
May 19, 1794
Died:
March 17, 1860
(aged 65)
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Anna Brownell Jameson was a British writer.
Known for:
Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838)
Shakespeare's heroines
Sacred and legendary art (1848)
The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826)
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