Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
Anna Jameson quotes about
peace evil wickedness
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.
sunshine two heaven
Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.
nature beauty-and-love inseparable
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
ninety-nine generosity world
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.
together pieces moments
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
enemy mixtures hopeless
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.
offering hands church
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.
heart despair poverty
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
hate mean tree
A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.
genius use talent
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.
health principles sanitary
Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive ...
mean light ideas
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.
law stronger opinion
Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
ties individuality brain
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.