Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson
Anna Brownell Jamesonwas a British writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 May 1794
inspirational mind realizing
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.
impossible sometimes time-love
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
love art philosophy
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
forgiveness suffering made
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
echoes mind fame
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
men want fool
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
christian stress animal
... 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.
poverty poor
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
education purpose cherish
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
language accuracy
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
ties individuality brain
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.
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
law stronger opinion
Opinion has ever been stronger than law.
lying believe facts
You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolutely impossible.