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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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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
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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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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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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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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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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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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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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