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