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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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• 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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• It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Thinking, Heaven

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.16

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• Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sweet, Truth, Smell

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Calvinism”, p.34

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• That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Serious Person, Imagination

  "The Nemesis of Faith". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1849.

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• Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835”, p.368, Cambridge University Press

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• Thy plain and open nature sees mankind
  But in appearance, not what they are.

  James Anthony Froude

  Appearance, Mankind

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• The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Faith, Science, Superstitions

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.464

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• Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway,
  The passion and infirmity of age.

  James Anthony Froude

  Passion, Age, Bears

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• Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Self, Denial

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

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• Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

  James Anthony Froude

  Morality, Divine, Obligation

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

  James Anthony Froude

  Morality, Virtue

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• I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

  James Anthony Froude

  Crush, Heart, May

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.13

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• We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Home, Names, Giving

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.102

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• The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

  James Anthony Froude

  Simple, Stories, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.3

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• I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

  James Anthony Froude

  Christian, Long, Atheism

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Opponents, Calm

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Appreciate, Lines, Taste

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

  James Anthony Froude

  Simple, Greatness, Law

  James Anthony Froude (1917). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”

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• Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

  James Anthony Froude

  Situations In Life, Situation, Compensation

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Common Sense, Prosperity

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.252

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• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

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• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Struggle, Son, Reality

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

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• Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?

  James Anthony Froude

  Men, Self, Law

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.134

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