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Anna Maria Hall
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“Alas! how truly did he tell her, that the love of ornament creeps slowly, but surely, into the female heart;—that the girl who twines the lily in her tresses, and looks at herself in the clear stream, will soon wish that the lily was fadeless, and the stream a mirror.”
Anna Maria Hall (1800–1881) first seen 1829 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rose of Fennock Dale", in S. C. Hall (ed.) The Amulet, or Christian and Literary Remembrancer (London, 1829), p. 204
“Beauty depends more upon the movement of the face than upon the form of the features when at rest. Thus a countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating causes of the movement or expressions which stamp their character upon it.”
Anna Maria Hall (1800–1881) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to "Mrs. S. C. Hall" in M. M. Ballou (ed.) Treasury of Thought, 7th ed. (Boston, 1881), p. 164. Actually by Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England (London and Paris, [1842]), p. 174