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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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 practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
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You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love they cannot reason themselves into it and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.
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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it hunger, at least, is a reality.
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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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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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When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them her soul is full.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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 cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely and that, after all, is about all.
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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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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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Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
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