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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Mrs. Jameson

Duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism.

It is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us.

Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters.

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

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 realises itself.