Anna Jameson [1794-1860] British    
Rank: 107
Writer
Experience, Fear, Poetry, Religion
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| 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. | Experience | 101| 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. | Fear, Religion | 102| 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. | | 103| Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. | | 104| We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. | | 105| Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. | Poetry | 106| Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. | | 107| What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. | | 108| The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. | | 109| A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. | | 110 | | | | | | | | | |
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