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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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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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