James Anthony Froude Quotes
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
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To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.
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We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
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Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.
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The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
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Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
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