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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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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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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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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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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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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.
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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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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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