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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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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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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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That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.
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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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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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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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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For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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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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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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