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Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.


Mrs. Anna Jameson

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MRS. ANNA JAMESON A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are
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ANNA JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself
ANNA JAMESON Trust in my affection for you.
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
ANNA JAMESON Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ANNA JAMESON Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
ANNA JAMESON In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually en...
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ANNA JAMESON All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and...
ANNA JAMESON What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changin...
ANNA JAMESON What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
ANNA JAMESON What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changi...
ANNA JAMESON It is to hope, though hope were lost.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouc...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own wit...
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MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
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MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Language is memory and metaphor.
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LOUISE JAMESON For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not rec...
STORM JAMESON When you're fearful, you stumble.
JENNA JAMESON In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of A...
FREDRIC JAMESON Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to...
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JAMESON FITZPATRICK The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed d...
FREDRIC JAMESON Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US inte...
FREDRIC JAMESON A gun is more important here than the Koran.
JAMESON CURRIER Language is memory and metaphor
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JENNA JAMESON For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not re...
STORM JAMESON The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it
STORM JAMESON Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn...
STORM JAMESON We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on ey...
STORM JAMESON Hope is a talent like any other
STORM JAMESON They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and le...
LOUISE JAMESON The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate nati...
FREDRIC JAMESON If I ever were to invoke religion to justify the prohibition of any act, group, or institution, my c...
MATTHEW JAMESON Some people make horrible human beings.
JULIE JAMESON Coming down a mountain just to go up another... and I wouldn't have it any other way.
JULIE JAMESON You can make new friends all day long but you can never make an old one.
JULIE JAMESON I was lucky to not have caught any sexual diseases , even though I worked without condoms for two ye...
JENNA JAMESON If you choose to live by the "Die with my boots on" philosophy, then may I suggest it's best you get...
JULIE JAMESON So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree;...
FREDRIC JAMESON If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalizati...
FREDRIC JAMESON Homes are seen as a place to live and play, not just to have dinner parties. We're building very ear...
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JENNA JAMESON A lot of things that happened [in the past] would have broken anybody else. I was able to survive. T...
JENNA JAMESON It doesn’t do anyone any good to live one life and hide another.
JAMESON CURRIER There is no such thing as moving on. There is only holding on to your grief and attempting to live t...
MATTHEW JAMESON Some time ago, nature changed the world as I knew it. It left no apologies, no remorse... waves and ...
JULIE JAMESON When life is telling you something you don't want to hear, that's your cue to shut up and listen.
JULIE JAMESON I believe in you, I do... but for that to matter, you must believe in yourself first.
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JULIE JAMESON Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
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JENNA JAMESON We look forward to running a great, clean club for adults to enjoy.
JENNA JAMESON The contract girls will be lending their beautiful assets to set us apart in the wireless market, .....
JENNA JAMESON Posing nude has to be one of my favorite things in the world
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JENNA JAMESON you can actually become a role model for women.
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JAMESON CURRIER I do. I choose you,
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JAMESON CURRY Now it's the time for character to be built.
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JAMESON CURRY We hustled. We trusted each other and we were unified. There is no such thing as a man-to-man defens...
JAMESON CURRY He said the victory made his hip feel better.
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JULIE JAMESON We laugh and we joke, but it's a huge fear in our minds.
JULIE JAMESON It sounds horrible, but we get really excited when we find out it's not a 46.
JULIE JAMESON The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
MRS. JAMIESON What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra...
MRS. JAMIESON Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
MRS. PARR He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MRS. MANLEY Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
MRS. EUSDEN Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the street...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot p...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepare...
MRS. FRANCES MACDONALD CORNFORD Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee-- E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; ...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) In the busy haunts of men.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified W...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure....
MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it...
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heave...
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, Th...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, sa...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain! Though not f...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll, The ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From th...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
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ANNA SEWELL My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away ...
ANNA KENDRICK I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in th...
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ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pret...
ANNA KENDRICK What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few...
ANNA NEAGLE We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
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That man should listen when his mate sings;
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ANNA TODD Innovation is the calling card of the future.
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