Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes

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• In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Evil

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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• Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Women, Might, Few Words

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• 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

  Exercise, Government, Matter

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.54

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• Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Fear, Evil, Principles

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.72

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• Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

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  Nature, Beauty And Love, Inseparable

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1858). “Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].”, p.97

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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.

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  Ninety Nine, Generosity, World

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Aspiration, Aspire, Frame Of Mind

  "A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected".

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Cutting

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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• If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Mind, Sides

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.93

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• To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

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  Mean, Light, Ideas

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.163, New Canadian Library

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• Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

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  Vanity, Modesty, Sometimes

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.1

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• Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Poverty, Poor

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• Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Law, Stronger, Opinion

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.203, New Canadian Library

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• What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Mind

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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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  Education, Purpose, Cherish

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• Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

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  Art, Nature, Divinity

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• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

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  Children, Men, Childhood

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

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  Home, Humanity, Horizon

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

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  Art, Focus, One Deep

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• A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Doe, Bondage, Be Careful

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.41

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• You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.

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  Lying, Believe, Facts

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• 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

  Love Is, Talking, Doe

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• the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

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  Genius, Use, Talent

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.73

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• Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Love, Art, Philosophy

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1858). “Sketches of art, literature, and character [orig. publ. as Visits and sketches at home and abroad].”, p.50

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• The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Together, Pieces, Moments

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.16

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