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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
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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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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.
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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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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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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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
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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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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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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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