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

  James Anthony Froude

  Ideas, Reason, Persons

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Reflection, Past

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

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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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• 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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• A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Two, Attention

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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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• 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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

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

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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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• 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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