Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

… 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.

Animal

Christian

Stress

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

Hate

Mean

Tree

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Delight

Mind

Prey

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.

Art

Degrees

Excellence

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Exercise

Government

Matter

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.

Generosity

Ninety Nine

World

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase “profound cunning,” has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

Mind

Phrases

Profound

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Change

Heart

Moss

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.

Character

Genius

Lying

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Childhood

Children

Men

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Answers

Art

Aspiration

Aspire

Beauty And Love

Believe

Brain

Change

Character

Childhood

Children

Christian

Church

Color

Conflict

Cups

Cutting

Degrees

Delight

Design

Despair

Divinity

Echoes

Equality

Evil

Excellence

Exercise

Facts

Fame

Fear

Few Words

Focus

Forgiveness

Form

Frame Of Mind

Generosity

Genius

Government

Gowns

Hands

Hate

Health

Heart

Heaven

Ideas

Individuality

Inseparable

Jars

Law

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Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

… 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.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

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.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase “profound cunning,” has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

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.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

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