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You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love they cannot reason themselves into it and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.
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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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
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There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
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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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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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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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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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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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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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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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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