James Anthony Froude Quotes
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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
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Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother,…
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as…
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
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The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the…
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Human improvement is from within outward.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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Justice without wisdom is impossible.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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