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A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
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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Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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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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Human improvement is from within outward.
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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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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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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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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