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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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.
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I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.
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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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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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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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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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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