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Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
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 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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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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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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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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To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
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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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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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I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
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I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
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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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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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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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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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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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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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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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