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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

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  Feet, Age, Twenties

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• Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

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  Art, Experience, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1869). “Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, March 19, 1869”, p.8

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• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

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  Sacrifice, Everyday Things, Law

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.238, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

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  Life

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

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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.

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  Nature, Lying, Believe

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• Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.

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  Hands, Age, Looks

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.141

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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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• 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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• In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

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  Spiritual, Father, Progress

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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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• For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.

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  Children, Light, Shadow

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.162

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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 think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Bird

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.59

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