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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.
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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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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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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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love they cannot reason themselves into it and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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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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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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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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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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