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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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• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

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  Heart, Self, Games

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54

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• Our thoughts and our conduct are our own.

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  Character, Our Thoughts

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.342

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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.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Men, Names

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

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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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• It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

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  Temptation, Soul, Rising

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.182

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  "Doubting Clerics : From James Anthony Froude to Robert Elsmere via George Eliot". Book by Rosemary Ashton, 1989.

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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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