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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 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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
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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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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
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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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That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.
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