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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.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Peace, Ubuntu, Evil

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

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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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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 government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

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Exercise, Government, Matter

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Aspiration, Aspire, Frame Of Mind

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

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

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Women, Might, Few Words

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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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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

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Law, Stronger, Opinion

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

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

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Poverty, Poor

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

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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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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.

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

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Together, Pieces, Moments

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

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

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Children, Men, Childhood

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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.

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Art, Doors, Mind

Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.192

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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Language, Accuracy

Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.63

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Born: May 19, 1794
Died: March 17, 1860
Occupation: Writer
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