James Anthony Froude Quotes

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• Human improvement is from within outward.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Improvement, Humans

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.378, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Learning, Acceptance

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

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• The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

  James Anthony Froude

  Acceptance, Greatness, Self

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• The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Caring, Waiting, Trials

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.163

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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

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  Practice, Law, Knows

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.256

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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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  Nature, Men, Originality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.439, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mistake, Men, Issues

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.460, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

  James Anthony Froude

  Happiness, World, Purpose

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• The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

  James Anthony Froude

  Education, Our Thoughts, Can Do

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.316

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• Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Men, Thinking

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.9

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• Mistakes are often the best teachers.

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  Teacher, Mistake, Best Teacher

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• I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.

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  Believe, Heart, Neighbour

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.41

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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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  Faith, Peace, Certainty

  James Anthony Froude (1868). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.193

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• That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 534, 1895.

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• The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Soul, Energy

  James Anthony Froude (1879). “The Nemesis of Faith”

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• To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Freedom, Ethos, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.10

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• Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

  James Anthony Froude

  Evil, Deceit, World

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.343

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.317

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• There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

  James Anthony Froude

  Solitude

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.209, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

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  Reflection, Clouds, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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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 moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Fall, Law, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short studies on Greate Subjects”, p.25

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• Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Spring, Ideas, Track

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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