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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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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Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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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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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 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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The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
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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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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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