James Anthony Froude Quotes

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• We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
• Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty
• 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,…
• Fear is the parent of cruelty.
• 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…
• We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
• The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
• The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
• Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
• Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
• The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
• 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…
• Human improvement is from within outward.
• The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
• Justice without wisdom is impossible.
• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

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