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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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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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.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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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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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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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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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Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
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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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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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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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