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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
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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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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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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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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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 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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I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.
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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 think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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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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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
James Anthony Froude
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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