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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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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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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Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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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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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.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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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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