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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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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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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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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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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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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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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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