Anna Brownell Jameson famous quotes

03-23-2025

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 #Evil #Principles
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.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Generosity #Nine #Sides
Modesty and chastity are twins
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Modesty #Twins #Chastity
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.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Art #Focus #One Deep
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Work #Occupation #Paradise
Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Work #Form
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Language #Accuracy
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Men #May #Want
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Poverty #Poor
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Education #Purpose #Cherish
... 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
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Echoes #Mind #Fame
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Forgiveness #Suffering #Made
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Love #Art #Philosophy
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Impossible #Sometimes #Time Love
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.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Inspirational #Mind #Realizing
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Men #Childhood #Doe
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.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Goodbye #Farewell #Love Is
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.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Home #Humanity #Horizon

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