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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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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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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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For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Charity is from person to person and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
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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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.
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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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