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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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Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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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 essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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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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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
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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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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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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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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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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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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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