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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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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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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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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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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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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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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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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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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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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 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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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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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Justice without wisdom is 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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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