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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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