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
Mind, Some, Earnestly, Aspiration
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
- Anna Jameson
Sense, Some, Aspire, Earnestly
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
- Anna Jameson
Love, Art, May, Conversation
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
Side, Hundred, Cases, Ninety-Nine
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
Principle, Wickedness, Motive
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
- Anna Jameson
Childhood, Never, Does, Visit
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
- Anna Jameson
Wise, Only, Himself, Wise Man
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
- Anna Jameson
Fool, Want, May, Sensibility
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
- Anna Jameson
Truth, Language, Accuracy
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
- Anna Jameson
Love, Impossible, Sometimes, Understand
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