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One Quotes by James Anthony Froude
- The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
- If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a…
- Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
- I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism,…
- 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…
- Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor…
- 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…
- I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements…
- It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human…
- When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul…
- Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
- You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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