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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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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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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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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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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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