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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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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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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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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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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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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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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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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