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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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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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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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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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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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