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Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
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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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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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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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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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it hunger, at least, is a reality.
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