All ANNA BROWNELL JAMESON Quotes about “Character”

“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.”

“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.”
“Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.”
“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.”
“Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.”

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