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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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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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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
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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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Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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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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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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 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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