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• Fear is the parent of cruelty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Fear, Parent

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ignorance, Dominion, Absurdity

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.461, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Tests, Belief

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ideas, Reason, Persons

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• Justice without wisdom is impossible.

  James Anthony Froude

  Wisdom, Justice, Impossible

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.455, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

  James Anthony Froude

  Fall, Past, Light

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.260, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

  James Anthony Froude

  Firsts, Duty, Historian

  "The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1891.

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Law, Good Man

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.239

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• 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 rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

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  Heart, Reflection, Past

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.184

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• Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

  James Anthony Froude

  Selfish, Sage, Fool

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.443, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Religion

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Endurance, Poor, Inequality

  James Anthony Froude (1894). “Caesar: a Sketch”

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• The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  James Anthony Froude

  Flower, Essence, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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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

  Happiness, Complaining, World

  James Anthony Froude (1969). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835”

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  House, Stronger, Burning

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.17

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• We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

  James Anthony Froude

  Loneliness, Leave Me Alone, World

  "Short studies on great subjects".

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

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  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Plato, Purpose, Augustine

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.8

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Self, Soul, Immortality

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.141

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• You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there are some contrarieties of temper which are too strong even for the obligations of relationship.

  James Anthony Froude

  Strong, People, Reason

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.82

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Eye, Knowing

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

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• Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

  James Anthony Froude

  Giving, Half, Charity

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

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• We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.

  James Anthony Froude

  Needs, Next, Opinion

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.91

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• Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

  James Anthony Froude

  Intellectual, Alive, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.353, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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