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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Brownell Jameson
O! to make children of us again, nothing like Venice!

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

Anna Brownell Jameson
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

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

Anna Brownell Jameson
Childhood does sometimes pay a second visit to man—youth never.

Anna Brownell Jameson
I have no other hope of happiness than in being with you, dearest!

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

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

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

Anna Brownell Jameson
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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It will haunt me until I see it again, for nothing in this world is like Venice.

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

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

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

Anna Brownell Jameson
Social life is becoming more necessary to me just as my power of commanding it is lessened.

Anna Brownell Jameson
I could almost wish myself a dormouse or a she-bear, to sleep away the rest of this cold, cold winter.

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

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

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

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

Anna Brownell Jameson
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords — philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Anna Brownell Jameson
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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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
It seems to me that we can find a similitude for everything else, but Venice is like nothing else — Venice the beautiful, the wonderful!

Anna Brownell Jameson
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
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
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
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.

Anna Brownell Jameson