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“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.”

Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

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A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

This book serves as a repository of the author's thoughts, memories, and creative inspirations, offering a glimpse into their personal experiences and imaginative world. more

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Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson was an English writer born in May 1794 and died in March 1860. She is known for her extensive literary works and her contributions to the advancement of women's literary status. more

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“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.”

Different Hands Action Certain Individual Church Shapes Fingers Satisfied Occasions Characteristics Bags Sentiments Offering Dropping Collectors Velvet

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“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.”

World Memories Blessed Dear Holiness

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.”

Heart Sometimes Poverty Despair Chill Calmness

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“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.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.”

Whole Character Conflict Highest Faculty Jars

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“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.”

People Character Helping Forgiveness Relation Forgiving

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.”

Character Passion Moral Development Adversity Prosperity Extremes Intellect Faculty Exceed Vivacity

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“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.”

States Moments Death Spirit Sleep Happened Conscious Transition Waking

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“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.”

Wells Character Turns Answers Fame Lips Cups Exalted

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.”

Mind Known Birth Fame Degrees Mercy Ignorant Reputation Echoes Footsteps Envious Posthumous

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson