Jane Wilde Quotes

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Human nature is a mystic duality, half animal, half angel; a worm, a God; and the contrast and strife between the two natures is never so marked as in the gifted.

Jane Wilde
Her style, also, is eminently terse and epigrammatic. Praise, which always has a tendency to weak diffuseness, would not suit it; therefore she is sparing of the holy, consecrating oil, and, even if she does anoint the head, by no means allows any to run down the beard, much less to reach the skirts of the clothing.

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Woman's intellect, keen, brilliant, and fearless, is rapidly permeating all departments of literature, and making its influence felt upon the mind of the age.

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Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success...

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This passionate yearning for solitude, so necessary to genius yet so difficult to obtain, is perhaps the very cause of the strange, irritable, cynical eccentricities of temper and manner so often observable in the priesthood of intellect.

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Ambition is peculiarly the passion of great minds. It is the aspiration after a sphere of those who feel within them the capability of filling one.

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The passionate poets seem to die younger than the reflective.

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Nations are like individuals. They pass from doubt to faith; but the transit is the most fearful phase of a human life.

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Every eye can detect the grains of gold, but it is only the philosopher can prove to us how much dross the ore contains.

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When you are as old as I, young man, you will know there is only one thing in the world worth living for, and that is sin.

Jane Wilde