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Anna Jameson quotes

British Writer May 17, 1794 – March 17, 1860

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Anna Jameson quote: "Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords -..."
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson quote: "We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is..."
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Anna Jameson
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
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
Anna Jameson quote: "The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself."
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson quote: "Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never."
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. Anna Jameson
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
Anna Jameson quote: "A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as..."
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson quote: "What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. Anna Jameson
Anna Jameson quote: "Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. Anna Jameson

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