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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.
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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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
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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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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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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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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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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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 live merely on the crust or rind of things.
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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
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Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
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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 think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
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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 endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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