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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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.
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Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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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.
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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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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
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