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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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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.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
James Anthony Froude
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
James Anthony Froude
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
James Anthony Froude
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
James Anthony Froude
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
James Anthony Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
James Anthony Froude
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
James Anthony Froude
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
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.
James Anthony Froude
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
James Anthony Froude
