James Anthony Froude Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Different, Tests

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

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

  James Anthony Froude

  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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Men, Originality

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

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• Mistakes are often the best teachers.

  James Anthony Froude

  Teacher, Mistake, Best Teacher

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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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• To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Despair, Helping

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.3, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Believe, Heart, Neighbour

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

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• Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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