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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mistakes are often the best teachers.

  James Anthony Froude

  Teacher, Mistake, Best Teacher

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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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• 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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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Faith, Peace, Certainty

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

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

  James Anthony Froude

  Ideas, Reason, Persons

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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 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Reflection, Clouds, Long

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

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