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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them her soul is full.
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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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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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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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