What we truly and earnestly... by Anna Jameson, a British Writer

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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.”

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Anna Jameson

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Name: Anna Jameson

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: May 17, 1794

Date of Death: Mar 17, 1860

Profession: Writer

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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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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.

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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.

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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

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

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