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James Anthony Froude Inspirational Quotes (64)

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I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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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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If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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Charity is from person to person and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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