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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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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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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.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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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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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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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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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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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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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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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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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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