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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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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.
James Anthony Froude
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
James Anthony Froude
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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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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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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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. 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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
James Anthony Froude
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
James Anthony Froude
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely and that, after all, is about all.
James Anthony Froude
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
James Anthony Froude
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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