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• ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Christian, Stress, Animal

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• If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Forgiveness, Suffering, Made

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.76

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• We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

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  Understanding, Impossible, Sometimes

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.39

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• Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Poetry, Religion, May

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• Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Echoes, Mind, Fame

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• How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

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  Art, Regret, Memorial

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1846). “Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals”, p.69

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• When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Sea, Rivers, Childhood

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.121

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• Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Enemy, Mixtures, Hopeless

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.369

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• There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Ties, Individuality, Brain

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• Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Heart, Despair, Poverty

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• Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic.

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  Offering, Hands, Church

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• Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

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  Character, Jars, Conflict

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• Modesty and chastity are twins

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  Modesty, Twins, Chastity

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

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  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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• A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

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  Taste, Conscious, Unconscious

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• I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

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  Sex, Love Is, Temptation

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.52

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• Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

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  Work, Form

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• In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

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  Forgiveness, Character, People

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.39

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• The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

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  Death, Sleep, Transition

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.19

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• To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Character, Answers, Cups

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.2

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• As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

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  Fashion, Eye, Social

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.84

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• In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

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  Art, Color, Design

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• Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Greed, Moral, Sensuality

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 20, 1895.

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