"Fame is that which is known to exist……" — Anna Brownell Jameson
"Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds."
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Anna Brownell Jameson
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20 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Brownell Jameson has 20 quotes on this site.
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense…
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the…
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not…
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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…
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing…
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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More Congenial Quotes
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one of 54 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which…
— John Burroughs
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
— Sean O'Casey
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent…
— Aleister Crowley
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To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits…
— John Burroughs
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The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone.…
— Brian Reynolds
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Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the…
— Wayne Allard
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We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh…
— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest;…
— James McCosh
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Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound…
— Owen Gingerich
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