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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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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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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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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
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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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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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.
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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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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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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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