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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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Charity is from person to person and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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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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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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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 could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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