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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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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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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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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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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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