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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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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it hunger, at least, is a reality.
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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.
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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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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love they cannot reason themselves into it and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.
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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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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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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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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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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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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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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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