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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
James Anthony Froude
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James Anthony Froude
Age: 75 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 23
Died: 1894
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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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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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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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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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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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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
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