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.
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. - Anna Brownell Jameson
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! - Anna Brownell Jameson
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be lov… - Anna Brownell Jameson
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be lov…
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 si… - Anna Brownell Jameson
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 si…
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 f… - Anna Brownell Jameson
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 f…
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. - Anna Brownell Jameson
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny. - Anna Brownell Jameson
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. - Anna Brownell Jameson
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
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 t… - Anna Brownell Jameson
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 t…
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