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True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely and that, after all, is about all.
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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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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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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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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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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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