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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely and that, after all, is about all.
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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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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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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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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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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