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• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Prison, Crime, Offense

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.223

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• Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

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  Merit, Inevitable, Sequence

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• Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

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  Courage, Character, Hands

  James Anthony Froude (1867). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.394

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• Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, Philosopher

  Short Studies on Great Subjects Calvinism (p. 51)

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• The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.

  James Anthony Froude

  War, Heart, Evil

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

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• I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

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  Successful, Men, Wish

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

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  Dream, Men, Would Be

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.164

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• We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

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  Real, Science, Accounts

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.203, Cambridge University Press

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• But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

  James Anthony Froude

  Strength, Running, Lying

  "Thomas Carlyle; a History of His Life in London, 1834-1881".

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• I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.

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  Children, Thinking, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.78

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• What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.

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  Husband, Men, Wife

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.132

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• Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.

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  Country, Men, Ideas

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.137

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• Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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  Mother, Nature, Children

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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  Law, Imperfection, Eternity

  James Anthony Froude (1871). “Calvinism”, p.10

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• The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Nature, Lying, Believe

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• I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.12

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• Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Children

  James Anthony Froude (1907). “Essays”

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• The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

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  Ciphers, Lines, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.6, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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  Epidemics, Disease, Wells

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.18, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.

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  Christian, Men, Example

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.87

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• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

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  Writing, Adventure, Mean

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?

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  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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

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• Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.

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  Heart, Men, Names

  James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1849). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.546

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• Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

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  Children, Believe, Heart

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.33

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