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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 .
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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But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.
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Charity is from person to person and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
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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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A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.
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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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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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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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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
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True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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