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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.
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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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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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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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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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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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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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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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