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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.
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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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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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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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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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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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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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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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