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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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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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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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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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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 all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
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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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