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The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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 -
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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 -
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 -
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
Anna Brownell Jameson
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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.
Anna Brownell Jameson -
Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.
Anna Brownell Jameson