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 the understanding of another. Anna Brownell Jameson More Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson More Quotes From Anna Brownell Jameson Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive. Anna Brownell Jameson sanitary health principles the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. Anna Brownell Jameson talent genius use Opinion has ever been stronger than law. Anna Brownell Jameson stronger opinion law When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. Anna Brownell Jameson childhood sea rivers 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. Anna Brownell Jameson divinity nature art whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other. Anna Brownell Jameson equality men sex Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled. Anna Brownell Jameson virtue passion perfect 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. Anna Brownell Jameson hate strong fear 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. Anna Brownell Jameson individuality ties brain In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. Anna Brownell Jameson design color art Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. Anna Brownell Jameson form work Modesty and chastity are twins Anna Brownell Jameson chastity modesty twins 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 one-deep focus art What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. Anna Brownell Jameson frame-of-mind aspire aspiration Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Brownell Jameson accuracy language ... 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 stress christian 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 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. Anna Brownell Jameson mixtures hopeless enemy The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. Anna Brownell Jameson pieces moments together
