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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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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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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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Morality rests upon a sense of obligation and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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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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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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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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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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The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
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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 scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
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