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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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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.
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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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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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For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.
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