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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

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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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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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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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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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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