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

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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#man #may #much #sense #sensibility

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#language #truth

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

#experience #generous #hundred #just #me

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#impossible #love #sometimes #understand

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. ↗

— Anna Jameson

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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

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