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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.
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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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of 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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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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
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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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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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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