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Anna Jameson
British
Writer
About the author
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Sense
#Mind
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Man
#Competition
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Sense
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Love
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Language
#Truth
#Accuracy
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Love
#Art
#May
#Weather
#Poetry
#Conversation
#Philosophy
#Scandal
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#World
#Experience
#Question
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Want
#May
#Man
#Sense
#Fool
#Sensibility
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Youth
#Man
#Childhood
#Visit
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson,
British
Writer
#Fear
#Motive
#Evil
#Religion
#Morals
#Beginning
#Wickedness
#Fanaticism