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

— Anna Brownell Jameson Memoirs and Essays (1846)

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

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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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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

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Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

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I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism.

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