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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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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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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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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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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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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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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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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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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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 practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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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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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