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 Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. Anna Brownell Jameson principles evil fear As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. Anna Brownell Jameson fashion eye social 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. Anna Brownell Jameson cups answers character The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state. Anna Brownell Jameson transition sleep death 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. Anna Brownell Jameson forgiveness character people Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. Anna Brownell Jameson conflict jars character It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Anna Brownell Jameson struggle mind men Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. Anna Brownell Jameson poverty despair heart Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world. Anna Brownell Jameson blessed memories world Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the hands; and he satisfied himself that in every individual the shape of the hand and of the fingers, the action and sentiment in dropping the gift into the bag, were distinctly different and individually characteristic. Anna Brownell Jameson church offering hands 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. Anna Brownell Jameson genius character lying Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Anna Brownell Jameson love philosophy art
