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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
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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 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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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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