Anna Brownell Jameson Quotes
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Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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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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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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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.
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Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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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.
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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.
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In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.
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Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
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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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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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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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The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
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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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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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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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As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.
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Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
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Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.
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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.
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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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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
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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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