"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in…" — Anna Brownell Jameson
"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
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20 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense…
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the…
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not…
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and…
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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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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing…
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.
— Kevin Bacon
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I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.
— Drew Barrymore
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I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.
— Brooke Burke
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I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.
— Jeb Bush
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander…
— Fidel Castro
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
— James Allen
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You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
— Saint Augustine
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
— Peter McWilliams
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is…
— Samuel Gompers
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